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EDITORIAL BOARD 

Walter Taylor Field, Chairman 

Wallace Clarke Boyden . Edward Smith Parsons 

Howard Allen Bridgman • Cornelius Howard Patton 
Alexander Dana Noyes John Baldwin Walker 

William Orr 



EVANSTON- CHICAGO 

PRINTED FOR THE CLASS 

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FOREW^ORD 

|EW of us have forgotten that old recipe — heard so often 
in our psychology recitations of twenty-five years ago — 
for the cooking of a hare. The first step in the process, 
it will be remembered, was to "catch your hare." Last 
June when the class invested me with the doubtful 
honor of editing the Class Book, I for a moment overlooked the 
fact that this familiar principle was applicable to class books as well 
as to other game and that before there could be any editing there 
must be something to edit. But the truth finally made itself felt 
and for more than six months, supported by an earnest editorial 
board, I have been hunting. It has been an arduous chase, yet 
exhilarating, withal, — and we have learned several things. First, 
we have learned — what we ought to have known before — that the 
Class of Eighty-three is a singularly modest class. It does not like to 
talk about itself — for publication. Some have resisted the eloquence 
of a full dozen letters from almost as many sources, — letters couched 
in the most persuasive language and ranging in intensity from the 
mildly suggestive to the violently threatening. Still the recipients 
have shrunk back. Such modesty may be said to have almost 
reached its consummation. Others have replied in monosyllables 
on postal cards, requiring a somewhat exhaustive — and exhaust- 
ing — one-sided correspondence to draw out the facts of their 
earthly pilgrimage. Some have become demoralized at the request 
for the "recent photograph" and have resisted offers of while-you- 
wait photographers, free kodaks, and unlimited retouching. 

We have invoked the law and the constabulary. The Supreme 
Court of Massachusetts has demonstrated its efficiency, and Justice 
Rugg has haled several Massachusetts lawyers before the bar, 
threatening them with contempt. Those who have resisted all 
other means have received a registered letter and have been com- 
pelled at least to give their "recent autograph" on the receipt. 
Strictly speaking, we have been not so much editors as inquisitors. 

We offer our thanks to those who have assisted in this work. 
Arthur Rugg's successful efforts have already been mentioned. 
Charlie Adams, too, has shown the hand of the astute lawyer and 
has snared several delinquents. Mac has brought in one or two, 
Bancroft has done valiant service; Semple, Atwater, Whitcomb, 
Frank Marsh, and W. K. Nash have lent valuable aid ; Cahoon and 
Cal Morse have helped with memorabilia; Blanke, with his kodak, 
has not only photographed himself for us, but has offered to photo- 
graph, gratis, all members of the class whom we would send to 
him, but though his generous offer has been passed along, the 
fellows have not flocked to him in such numbers as to interfere with 
his business. 

Outside of the class we extend grateful thanks to Mrs. Orlando 
Mason, Marcus's mother, who has supplied us with many of the 
group pictures; to the management of the International Hotel of 
Niagara Falls, who at no little trouble hunted up the signature 
which Marcus made in the hotel register on that fatal July day in 

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1892, and cutting it out sent it for reproduction; to George L. 
Baxter, Head Master of the Somerville, Mass., Latin High School, 
who found for us Oliver's earlier signature written the summer 
before he entered college, in the autograph album of a Somerville 
classmate; to the postmaster at Utica, New York, who helped to 
locate Ellison's family; to the postmaster at Hobart, New York, 
who gave us the address of Silliman's brother ; to the town clerk of 
Amherst, New Hampshire, who put us in communication with 
G. W. Foster's brother; to Messrs. O. C. Watkins, J. C. Hisey, 
and Milton Gantz, traveling agents for Ginn & Company, who gave 
personal assistance in one or two stubborn cases, and to wives, 
relatives and friends of the fellows who have left us, for biographical 
data and photographs. 

I wish, personally, to express my appreciation of the help which 
I have received from my associates on the editorial board. They 
have been fruitful in resources and tireless in execution. Their 
enthusiasm has been contagious. To their aid is due in large 
measure whatever attractiveness or completeness the book may 
possess. 

All this has been a labor of love. If it has taken time, it has 
also revived old memories, renewed old friendships, put us in touch 
(With fellows of whom we have not heard in years, and made us 
boys again. To us, it has been worth the effort; to you who read, 
we hope it may not seem labor spent in vain. It will not have 
been in vain if the book gives to any whose love for the old college 
may have grown cold, a touch of the old boyish enthusiasm; if it 
brings to any a realization that the friendships of twenty-five years 
are too deep and too sacred to be lightly broken, and if it fixes a 
purpose to attend the next reunion, in 1913, in spite of every 
obstacle. 

W. T. F. 

Chicago, February 21, 1909 



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EIGHTY-THREE IN COLLEGE 

SOME IMPRESSIONS BY NO YES 

HE class of 1883 was really born, I suppose, on the day in 
September, 1879, when we shuffled into one of the rooms 
in the chapel and answered to our first roll call. Most of 
got into the wrong room several times, and most of us had 
already distinguished ourselves by asking tutors and sophomores 
what they had been conditioned in at the entrance examinations. 
I think it was Monty who called the roll, and smiled roguishly at 
our uproarious laughter over the five Smiths and over the call for 
Blanke, and over "Semple, Simonds" — which somehow sounded 
like an extract from our very recent text-book of the nursery. I 
suppose we were as raw and crude as the present generation of 
newly-arrived freshmen; the country itself must have been cruder 
in 1879; but we do not seem, in retrospect, to have been exactly 
like them. We were respectful to upper-classmen; were pleased 
when a senior seemed to think it worth while to urge us in a body 
to join the Antivenenean Society, and felt immensely complimented 
when Tom Sawyer of '80 opened an address to us with, "Gentle- 
men, honor is the subject of my story," and asked for subscriptions 
to the base-ball fund. We were not very well acquainted with 
one another when we played our own base-ball game on the 
c.impus. "Funny" Foster caught, and let all the balls go by when 
the sophomores blew horns in his ear — and we had some difficulty 
in telling whom to grapple and whom not, when the sophomores 
rushed us. We did not even know what taunts to fling at the 
sophomores when they sat opposite us on the campus, but I re- 
member we came out strong on Paul Blatchford and his pistol. 

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We could be immensely facetious, even then, if we knew what to 
be facetious about. The one thing clear in remembrance about 
that period is that the Andover boys and the Williston boys went 
about in bunches, and that the dormitory occupants stuck rather 
closely to one another, like single gentlemen who had arrived at 
the same hotel to stay a week or so. 

It must have taken us a good while to get our eyes open, be- 
cause the events of freshman year are hazy. Benny Smith stands 
out rather clearly. I met him in the library of a New York club 
one night last winter, and he confided to me that he never liked 
teaching geometry. We certainly never liked being taught it. I 




BLAKE FIELD 

wonder how many '83 men remember Fred Mitchell's poem in The 
Student of May, 1880 — a really capital travesty of Poe's "Raven": 

"With his cruel smile sardonic, 
And his laughter so ironic, 
And his theory harmonic, 
And his problems by the score ; 
Take this tutor, and his everlasting problems, I implore. 
To thy realms, forevermore." 

That day of a wild snow storm, just at the end of the fall term, 
when we sat shivering over the geometry examination papers in, I 
think. College Hall, when Fat Jones marched up and handed in his 
paper ten minutes after he got it, and we all wondered what freak 
of brilliant achievement had possessed him — not knowing that he 
had stared at the questions for exactly that space of time and then 
given them all up — was a fit conclusion to the episode. 

I think it was that year when C. A. Tuttle recited "The Bells," 
and when Charlie Adams came to the Latin recitation with his 

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Todd Cowles 

THE OLD FACULTY 
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head shaved close — a prevalent fashion 
then, like the fashion of peanut-shell 
derbies — with the exception of one lock 
of hair at the back which was tied up 
with green ribbon. Since Charlie was in 
the A's on the front row everybody but 
Professor Crowell could see the pigtail, 
and he thought us merely silly — as per- 
haps we were. Probably no one has for- 
gotten the bogus "Fifteen" announcement 
on the chapel bulletin-board, and Cocky 
French's prompt departure to get a 
trainer for the Kellogg; much less have 
we forgotten the great event which began 
with the burning of a few barrels on the 
campus and ended with the tipping of a 
certain extremely decrepit edifice into the flames. I can see Stubbus 
Rolfe now, and one or two other '82 men who had come to watch 
the "freshman fire," passing through the door of that blazing edifice 
to pay their last tribute to it. A stretch of uncertain events comes 




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A REMINISCENCE OF FRESHMAN YEAR 

along with this, somehow mixed up with recollections of Northamp- 
ton and Bridgey's wash-bag, and of Ting Liang Ho, who never 
could master American slang, though he used it on all occasions, 
chiefly where it did not apply. 

What stands out conspicuously in sophomore year is the night 
after some mild idiot had branded a colossal '83 on the campus by 

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MEMORIALS OF THE FACULTY 
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burning dead leaves, and when we heard that the freshmen were 
planning to burn out the entire campus. Five men to each '83 
dormitory room was the order — three in the bed and two on the 
floor — and the capture of three or four stray freshmen when the 
alarm was given, at 4 A. M., is a very definite picture. There was 
a pump by the college then, and we used it for the disciplinary 
purposes of the hour. Most of us remember the sequel, when Sabe 
and Steb got into trouble for hazing, and we sent a delegation to 
Prexie to have sentence suspended. I think it was Bill Claflin who 
asked Prexie if he would let them off providing everybody else who 
had hazed freshmen would confess. At any rate, Prexie said yes, 
and as nearly all the class had been on the campus at the pumping, 
about eighty men marched down to Prexie's to confess. Whose 
idea it was to send the penitents down in installments, at five- 
minute intervals, I have forgotten ; but I know that the result was 
to head the first installment with Henry Fairbank and Governor 
Knight and all the innocent men, and let them get Prexie's lecture 
before the main body arrived. Prexie compromised on written con- 
fessions, to be mailed or delivered by each culprit, and it may have 
been Tom Comstock who suggested the plan (unanimously ap- 
proved) of ringing Prexie's door-bell once every ten minutes to 
deliver a note with a confession in it. 






Con " 



Moses " 



' Prof. Charlie " 



We must have made his life miserable, and the day when we 
bought up Hannah's left-over tall hats of the previous half-century, 
after the fire, and marched up to chapel in them, capped the climax. 
One seems to remember Patt as a ringleader in this sort of thing; 
he was not sure of going into the ministry then, and laughed loud 
when Prexie prayed in chapel for divine pity on our immaturities. 
Old Derwall was another matter ; I recall with shame the day when 
we got a legitimate bolt on him and didn't dare take it, and when 
the old man, arriving at the recitation room ten minutes late, re- 
marked with a sardonic grin, "Thought ye wouldn't go yet awhile, 
eh?" Pennock was the only man who mastered Derwall, and that 
was not because Pennock understood chemistry, for he was capable 
of saying in recitation that HoO smelt like rotten eggs and that 
HoS burned with a blue flame. But when Derwall lectured Pen- 
nock for ten minutes on "concentration," and asked him what an 
army would do if another army was charging down the hill on 
them, and when Pennock, after long thought, said he supposed 
they'd run, the old man fell into his chair and surrendered. I have 
always thought Pennock penetrated analogies in that case better 
than Derwall did. 



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COLLEGE BASEBALL TEAM 1882-3 




COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM 1882-3 
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Why it is that junior and senior years seem tame and uneventful 
in comparison with the others, is something hard to answer. Per- 
haps the reason is the same as that for the middle-aged man's gar- 
rulous interest in telling about his boyhood. It was only with 





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Doc's Announcement of the Gym Prize 

Monty that we unbent as of yore, and it was in junior year that 
two strong men used to stand outside the cubby-hole of a recita- 
tion room at the top of the chapel building and impel each new 
arrival violently into the room. Monty's request that gentlemen 
come in more quietly seemed to have no effect whatever. Cushy's 
soothing questions about the plot of the French stories which we 
had to translate into English always put matters straight, however. 
Was it that year, or the year before, when we won the cider at 
Athletics and Billy Ellison had so much of it, and came around 
with a cup after many visits, saying he didn't want any for himself, 
but would like some for a poor widow? There were ball-games in 
those days, and it was we who saw the first game that was ever 
won from Harvard, when Gould pitched and Harvard couldn't bat 
him, and Crittenden came in from third base on the shoulders of the 
crowd, and Gates ran breathlessly up to ring the chapel bell. 

None of us has forgotten the masquerade gymnasium of senior 
year. We used to wonder how many prophecies of that alleged 
semi-centennial reunion would turn out correct. The platoon of 
country ministers contained a good many correct predictions, but 
we knew that, even then. One or two others hit the mark 
in a rather extraordinary way. I wonder how many recall the 
couple who were entered on the mock "Student Extra" of 1933 as 
"Rev. C. H. Patton, A. B. C. F. M., and heathen," and remember 
the missionary in a gray linen duster with a beard to his knees, 
leading by a chain an uproarious savage who yelled and threw 
spears. Patton has made good in half the allotted time ; I am not 
wholly sure about Charlie Hamilton. The recollection of Newell as 
an ocean traveler with a long rope suggests a faint sort of analogy ; 

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so does that of Rush Rhees acting as nurse for a robust and ob- 
streperous infant. Cushman has yet to become an M. C, but he is a 
lawyer, which ought to help. Most of us aimed rather wildly; 
even Zach Stuart as a Western desperado, which ought to have 

The Student Extra. 



VOL. LXVI. 



MARCH 19, 1933, 



No. 12. 



Entered at the Post Office, at Amherst^ as second 
rate matter. 



Notice : — The Semi-Centennial Ke- 
union of the class of 1883 will take place 
this evening, the fiftieth anniversary of 
their last Gymnasium exercise,. in College 
Hall.* 

C. H. Patton, 
A. D. NOYE.S, *E. E. Saben, 

H. A. Smith, 
Committee of Arrangements. 

The Student wishes to extend its heart 
iest congratulations and good wishes to 
the aged band of Alumni now renewing, in 
these classic halls, the reminiscences of 
their youth. Next to the aholition of the 
Afternoon Service, nothing could be more 
pleasing to the College at large, than to 
witness the loyalty and devotion of these 
venerable individuals to their Alma Mater 

The following Alumni had registered at 
Walker Hall, up to 7-30, this evening: — 

The Hon. Theodore Graham Lewis, U. 
S. Supreme Bench 

Hon. A. F. Cushman, M. C. 

Rev. Cornelius Patton. A. B. C. F. M., 
and Heathen. 

Father Clapp, \^^^^ ^^ Holy Jesuits. 
Father Saben. j -^ 

Clarentio Nicoletti, dau. and animal. 

*Owins;tothe delay in the completion of 
the New'Gymniisiujn. the exercises are nec- 
essa,rily held in the Hall 



Signor Cottoni 'J Paris Conserva- 

Prof. Edwin Fowler, J tory of Music. 

Gen. I, E. Comins, State Militia. 



Rev. Wallace Boyden. 



Northampton 



Rev. Henry Fairbank, (^ Home for Im- 
Rev. Alexander Noyes, becile Old 
Rev. Williston Walker. J Men. 

H. C. S. Houghton, and Gip. 

Prof. Marcus M. Mason, D. D.. LL. D., 

Princeton College. 

F. H. Fitts. Ex-Corporal U. S. A. 

E. H. ByingtOn, and keeper. 

Boss Field, Tammany Hall, N. Y. 

Major Gen. J. M. Johnson, ] 
Col. W. L. Hallett, (.it Q a 

Lieut. Col. T. L. Comstock. i^' ^' ^^ 
Capt. G. P. Ellison, J 

F. Rogers Holt. ) f»_^. ^ t, j 
W. B Lew, } ^''ith Reg. Band. 

C. H Washburn. M. C. R. R. 

D. L. Bardwell, N. L. N. R. R. 

Capt. Horatio Newell, U. S. N. 

Doctor Foster and wife. 

Cap'n Whitcomb, and the old woman, 
Cape Cod. 

C. S. Adams, Police News; wife, child 
and nurse. 

Prof. Frederick Kendall, U. S. Geologi- 
cal Survey. 

Prof. E. S. Parsons. Ph. D. 
Zack Stuart. Poker Flat, Idaho. 

Rev. Foster S. Haven, D. D., Pres. 
Smith College. 



REPRODUCTION OF "THE STUDENT EXTRA" 
Used as a Program for Eighty-three's Last Gym Ex. 

been a correct forecast, has realized nothing of the prediction but 
the West, and our one statesman, Pete Rainey, cast his own horo- 
scope as a professional gambler. 

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But this, after all, was not a typical event of senior year, which 
mostly seems, in looking back at it in the now distant retrospect, 
like a long series of "sings" on the campus — not "Lord Geoffrey of 
Amherst" or "Amherst, brave Amherst," but good old favorites like 
"The Pope," and "Nelly," and "Oralie," and "The Bull-dog," and 
"When I'm no more drinking." 




Rush Rhees, Joe Kingman, Steb 



Walt Field Pol Clapp 



W^hitcomb 



Bridgey 




Jim Foster Cal Morse Geo. Hooker Billy Ellison Harry Smith Sabe 

A FEW OF THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE " LAST GYM EX." 



It was the time when friendships were being knit fast, and a 
twenty-five year reunion is like a day out of senior year. For the 
college course never really ended; we take it up every five years, 
and Charlie Adams and Charlie Hamilton come lounging across the 
town common as they used to come, and Harry Smith strolls lazily 
up Amity Street, and Parsons hurries down from chapel arranging 
things, and Houghton bursts in asking what we are doing now, 
and Field meditates a poem, and everybody else does exactly what 
he would have been doing in June, 1883. It will seem the same at 
the fifty-year reunion, even if the roll-call shows many gaps in the 
line which closed up so heartily this summer. 

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THE GLEE CLUB 1882-3 
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SENIOR YEAR 



A FOOTNOTE BY FIELD 

l^a^lHE printer has sent word that at this point in the "make 
mjR^^ up" the illustrations so far exceed the text as to threaten 
f^^ga^l great typographical demoralization. Now, as we cannot 
afford to sacrifice mechanical perfection for the want of a few 
score words of filler, I offer the following. The reader may regard 
it as so much type and printer's ink, — a sort of background or set- 
ting, as it were, for the pictures which it accompanies; he may 
glance at it with such feelings of aesthetic pleasure as he may be 
able to summon up, and may then pass on to the next sketch. 

Sandy, in his impressions of college days, hardly does justice 
to senior year. It was, on the whole, a lazy time, but it con- 
tained some things worth chronicling. First came the appointment 

of the monitors, 
Fairbank, Boyden, 
Noyes and Willis- 
ton Walker, — the 
earliest announce- 
ment of the honor 
men of the class. 
Knight was one of 
the four as first 
/mnounced but his 
health broke down 
during the early 
winter and he was 
obliged to leave 
college. 

Then there 
was the organiza- 
tion of the senior 
societies. They 
w^ere three in 
number, and pos- 
sessed certain 
earmarks by 
which they were 
known. The E. 
Pi D.'s were re- 
gardedbythe 
Sigma Psi's as 
hardened de- 
bauchees and the 
Sigma Psi's were 
considered by the E. Pi D.'s as grannies. Neither estimate was, I 
believe, quite correct. The P. Q.'s formed as a sort of compromise. 
They employed in their titles a somewhat suspicious terminology, 
but, for the credit of the clerical members of the organization, it may 
be asserted that their most dangerous beverages were Apollinaris 
and sweet cider. On one memorable occasion, however, they were 

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THE MONITORS 




SIGMA PSI 




EPSILON PI DELTA ["E. PI D."] 
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unable to entirely finish a keg of the latter which Charlie Hamilton 
had placed on tap for them, until it had reached an advanced stage 
of fermentation — the results of which are best left forgotten. 

And how vividly those senior psychology recitations stand out, 
after a quarter of a century, — that definition of Hickok's, which we 
have remembered because of its enormity — "A limitless void is a 
collection of void limits which stand together as pure limits without 
any limited," and the stuff about an "incipient somewhat that is 
not altogether." And there were the familiar references to Sotus 
and Scotus, to Meno's slave and the "flower in the crannied wall" — 
it all comes back in a flood of memory, with Garman's kindly smile 
and those dark eyes of his which seemed to penetrate into the 
empty recesses of our minds. And those Monday morning recita- 




THE p. Q.'s 

tions in the catechism, when our revered and near-sighted "Jule" 
called the roll and each man, except those in the front seats, after 
answering to his name folded his tent and stole away, leaving a 
nominal attendance of about eighty, but an actual presence in the 
flesh of perhaps thirty-five or forty. 

Then there was the brief but spirited career of the Northampton 
Symphony Concert Company, an organization composed of Amherst 
seniors and Smith girls, which gave a somewhat remarkable series 
of concerts at Northampton, Florence, and near-by towns. Tom 
Comstock was announced (but did not appear) in a "guitar and 
banjo duo" ; the present Secretary of the American Board warbled 
through a piece of tissue paper laid over a fine tooth comb, while 

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Northampton Symphony Concert Company 



Patt and Joe in Clover 





Wheeler '84 Goodwin Boyden 

Best '85 Field Mills '82 Hamilton 



Goodwin 
Sprout Field 






Senior Hat Shapes 
Cahoon and Clafiin 



A Dramatic Episode 
Field and Hamilton 



Harry Smith 
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Aborn drew out the musical potentialities of the triangle and 
Charlie Hamilton pounded the big bass drum. C. M. Bardwell was 
"business manager," but found himself hopelessly unable to manage 
the Smith contingent. 

During the winter we had an exhibition of the manly art of 
self-defense by the boxing instructor, Bill Dole, and his four dis- 
ciples, Pete Rainey, Cahoon, Bill Claflin and Gov. Ward. The 
accompanying illustration, from an old photograph, fortunately 




THE BOXERS 

preserved, shows the Congressman from Illinois in an attitude of 
yearning for someone to knock a chip off his shoulder. It is an 
attitude he has since assumed in the House of Representatives 
toward the chief executive of the nation. 

Other things occurred during that winter which are not easily 
forgotten. There were the class elections then so vitally serious 
but now in the retrospect so full of humor. There was the cele- 
brated case of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. Muzzey 
et al., in which Tede Lewis, Harry Smith, Chesley and Cupid Low 
were required to testify as to whether Muzzey colored his pink 
lemonade with claret or cochineal. There was the stag dance at 
"Spoon Vittles'," the dramatic entertainments at the fraternity 
houses, sleighing to Hamp, with some unfortunate casualties, — 
Trowbridge losing his whip and Bridgey his washing. Then, too, 
that January day when a glare of ice formed over the deep snow, 

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Senior Dramatics 

THE IsTE^W 

BIP VAN WINKLL 

A TRAVESTY OF 

Collep Life ii i Oldiiii Tim; ! 



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COLLEfiE LIFE TODAY. 

PLAY WRITTEN FOR THE CLASS! 

Hei Words and Net Hasic for the Songs ! 

Sotn FsMii Eplfb tht Obm! 



CAST OF CHARACTERS. 

KIP VAN WINKLE W. T. FIELD 

EZEKIEL BARBECUE C. H. PATTON 

ELIPHALET SMALL D. P. HATCH 

JOSIAH TOUGHMAN A. D. NOYES 

P. GRINDS, A. B T. G. LEWIS 

BEV. MR. CHOKER C. S ADAMS 

JACK SLUGGERMAN C. F. McFARLAND 

CRANK EDWIN FOWLER 

SHUFFLE .- W. C. BOYDEN 

BLUFF - G. P. ELLISON 

BONE G. B. FOSTER 

MRS. CHOKER H. D. STEBBINS 

PY;EMIA CHOKER H, A. BRIDGMAN 

FLORA MASHINGTON J- R. KINGMAN 

KATE H. A. SMITH 



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On the evening or the Gymnasium Exhibition. 

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and half the college went down College Hill from recitations sliding 
over the crust on barrel staves, books, pieces of pasteboard, or 
anything else that came to hand, — to the infinite danger, and in 
several cases the demolition, of the seats of gym trousers which 
were then nearing the end of their last year of service and had 
reached a state of extreme tenuity. And, speaking of clothes, I am 
reminded of the Sunday street costume of senior year. No 
cap and gown was then affected, but a high silk hat was thought 
essential to the maintenance of senioric dignity. A fashion plate 
of that epoch has been reproduced on another page. 

So the winter wore away and the bright spring days came back 
and Nick shaved off his beard. (Not so Pennock and Sam Hallett, 
though they were urgently importuned to do so.) And the "Con- 
vent" lamb was seen disporting himself on the lawn in front of what 
is now the president's house, — with a wreath of posies about 
his neck and a quite idyllic group of girls petting him rather 
superfluously, it seemed to the fellows then, — but there was 
probably method in it. 

After the last gym ex., which Sandy has already described, 
came the class play, which he did not describe, — probably because 
his modesty forbade. For Sandy was the author of it, the director, 
and one of the chief actors — and was everywhere at all times. An 
old tintype, here reproduced, shows him as David Toughman, and 
Hatch as the base book agent, Elipha- 
let Small. The tremulous senility of 
Charlie Adams as the Reverend Mr. 
Choker, the arch coquetry of Bridgey 
as "Pyaemia," and the ravishing beauty 
of Joe and Harry in borrowed skirts, 
false hair and picture hats, has unfor- 
tunately not been preserved by the 
camera, but was photographed on the 
memory of most of us. 

A few more weeks of happy indo- 
lence filled with dreams of the great 
outside world of which we knew so 
little, — and Commencement was upon 
us. The memories of that week are 
misty, — so much was crowded into 
it, — but when it was all over, and we 
had gone down to New London and had seen the boat race and were 
sitting about the long tables in the Pequot House far into the 
night — the last night that we should ever be together as a whole, — 
singing with a lump in the throat and trying to be gay, — I think we 
all realized what bonds our college life had welded. 




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POCO'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE HYDE FIFTEEN 

COMMENCEMENT WEEK, JUNE 24 TO 27, 1883 

Sunday — Baccalaureate by President Seelye. 

Monday P. M., Hyde Speaking — *Adams, Clapp, Morse, Parsons, 
Sprout, C. A. Tuttle. 

Tuesday, Class Day — Class Orator, Parsons; Class Poet, Field; 
Grove Orator, Cushman; Grove Poet, Noyes; Ivy Orator, 
Hooker; Ivy Poet, Williston Walker; Ivy Odist, Lewis; Mar- 
shal, Johnson; Choregus, McFarland. 

Wednesday, Commencement — Speakers: Boyden, Fairbank, Ham- 
lin, Noyes, Orr, Rhees, yC. A. Tuttle, Williston Walker. 

Tuesday Evening — Class Day Concert. 

Wednesday Evening — Senior Promenade; Chairman, Comstock. 

Thursday Evening — Class Supper at New London, Conn. ; Toast- 
master, Adams; Junior Historian, Bridgman; Senior Historian, 
Kingman; Prophet, Chesley; Prophet on Prophet, Ward; 
Toasts — Hooker, Rainey, Patton, Hamilton, Fowler, Saben, E. 
S. Orr, Stuart. 



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Fifteenth Year Reunion ( 1898) 



THE REUNIONS 

REPORTED BY BRIDGMAN 

| vg s g| 1 HE class has held during the twenty-five years since grad- 
HS^^ uation, six reunions. The first was well worth while, and 
t^ggjil each subsequent gathering has marked a steady growth in 
class spirit. This fact guarantees that the fiftieth year reunion in 
1933 will be only exceeded in fun, f riskiness and fellowship by the 
sixtieth in 1943. 

THE THIRD YEAR REUNION (1886) 

We were only "three years out of the hen-coop" and looking, 
some of us, quite like undergraduates still, when we met, thirty- 
eight strong, at Captain Hill's restaurant Wednesday morning, 
June 30, 1886. This hostelry was known as Muzzey's in our college 
days, and around it gathered fragrant memories of oyster stews 
and lemonade. A main feature of the reunion exercises was the 
presentation of the class cup to Chesley. Boyden, the chairman of 
the cup committee, made the presentation speech and Ches. 
responded gracefully. Cushman occupied the chair. Parsons was 
elected secretary and Stuart reelected president. 

THE FIFTH YEAR REUNION (1888) 

The fifth year reunion in 1888 was attended by twenty-five of 
the fellows, — not as many as at the third year reunion, but enough 
to have a thoroughly good time. Speeches were made, a telegram 
of congratulation was sent to Rainey in view of his political honors, 
and the rest of the time was given up to good fellowship and 
reminiscences of the old days. 

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THE TENTH YEAR REUNION (1893) 
Our decennial was not only a delightful gathering but set the 
pace for future reunions. Hitchcock Hall furnished pleasant and 
acceptable headquarters, and there from Saturday, June 20, until 
Wednesday, June 24, men could be found wearing the " '83 button." 
We participated as individual preference dictated in the college 
program for the week, and had, besides, our own peculiar class 
festivities. The delegation of forty-four eclipsed all previous rec- 
ords, and four wives, Mrs. Fitts, Mrs. Whitcomb, Mrs. Fairbank 
and Mrs. Parsons, together with Esther Parsons, the first of the 
second generation of '83 to celebrate a reunion at Amherst, graced 
the occasion. Tuesday afternoon Professor and Mrs. Todd gave 
us a charming reception. The reunion banquet was served by 
Dooling in Walker Hall on Tuesday evening. Boyden was elected 
president. Parsons re-elected secretary and treasurer, and William 
Orr assistant secretary and treasurer. Patton was toastmaster, 
and informal speeches were made by Stebbins, Callahan, Johnson, 
Williston Walker, Orr and Bridgman. A committee consisting of 
Noyes, Walker, and Orr was appointed to raise a fund to present 
to the college for a class memorial. Marcus Mason, whose tragic 
death at Niagara Falls had saddened all our hearts, was tenderly 
remembered; Kingman spoke of him in a few well-chosen words, 
and a silent toast was drunk. 

This reunion was signalized by the invention of two yells which 
after considerable practice we were able to emit on slight provoca- 
tion. Here they are: 

ALUMNI YELL 

"Who are we? Who are we? 
We are Amherst, Eighty-three. 
Hear us shout ! Hear us shout ! ! 
We have been just ten years out. 
Eighty-three." 
CLASS YELL 

"Hobble-gobble, razzle-dazzle, sis-boom-ba, 
Amherst College, Eighty-three, Rah ! Rah ! ! Rah ! ! !" 

On Commencement day the class marched with its handsome 
banner to the Pratt Gymnasium where the alumni dinner was held. 
Bridgman represented the class in the after-dinner speaking. The 
letters that came back to the secretary the next few weeks showed 
how strongly the reunion took hold of those who were there. 

THE FIFTEENTH YEAR REUNION (1898) 
Our fifteenth year reunion drew out of their lairs some men who 
had never before been at a class reunion. The Mississippi Valley 
and the Pacific Coast as well as the East were represented. Rooms 
I and 2 in North Cpllege were our headquarters, and the photo- 
graphs, memorabilia and decorations showed what fruitage the 
years were bringing, also serving as reminders of the old, happy, 
undergraduate days. Not many of the fellows arrived until Monday, 
but on Tuesday enough were on hand to make a creditable repre- 
sentation of the class at the reception of Professor and Mrs. Todd. 
We also went to see the apparatus which Professor Garman had 

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purchased for his psychological laboratory with the money raised 
iDy the class since the decennial. The banquet was held in Walker 
Hall on Tuesday evening. McFarland was elected president and 
William Orr secretary and treasurer, Parsons feeling that he lived 
too far away from Amherst to do the work of the office as it ought 
to be done. Telegrams of sympathy were sent to Johnson and 
Bridgman, who were ill. 

Cushman with customary cheerfulness acted as toastmaster, and 
speeches were made by Whitaker, Noyes, Hamlin, Byington, 
Williston Walker, E. S. Orr and others. A good number of fellows 
stayed over to the alumni dinner Wednesday. 

THE TWENTIETH YEAR REUNION (1903) 

At our twentieth year reunion William Orr had succeeded to 
the position formerly occupied by Parsons. He began the prodding 
business early enough to secure a creditable attendance. We 
returned to our satisfactory headquarters of ten years before at 
Hitchcock Hall and resumed the splendid custom of arriving early. 
Sunday found a considerable number on hand who braved the 
downpour of rain to attend the baccalaureate in the morning, while 
in the evening fifteen came together in one of the chapel rooms for 
an informal conference on the deeper matters of our lives. It was 
a prayer meeting, and yet something more than the old-fashioned 
gathering, for men opened their hearts to one another. Patton led 
the meeting. 

On Monday a merry party went by trolley over the Notch to 
South Hadley, where President WooUey gave us an informal recep- 
tion and we were introduced to the new Mount Holyoke College. 
On we marched then to Mount Tom, where we had dinner, 
returning to Amherst via Hamp. The latter part of the journey 
brought to mind vivid mem.ories of uncertain livery teams, or toil- 
some tramping over the meadows, or the horrors of the Hamp 
stage. We reached Amherst in season to attend a reception given 
us by Professor and Mrs. Todd. In the evening there was a rousing 
sing at Hitchcock Hall. Tuesday brought the regular business class 
meeting, at which a class assessment of $2.00 per member for the 
next five years was voted with a view to providing a fund for the 
expenses of 1908. The secretary was instructed to send out a yearly 
bulletin. Later in the forenoon the company, including a dozen or 
more ladies, assembled to listen to a talk from Professor Garman 
in his own recitation room on the opportunities and duties of college 
men in promoting sound civic life and good citizenship. We shall 
never forget the fine idealism and broad outlook of his address. 

The class dinner came at noon in Hitchcock Hall, and a similar 
meal was partaken of simultaneously by our ladies in another room. 
Cushman was again at the head of the table with an entirely new 
grist of stories, and a number of good speeches followed. Patton 
was elected president and William Orr, "good and faithful servant," 
was reelected secretary. The day ended with a reception at the 
hom.e of Professor and Mrs. Garman. On Wednesday morning a 
meeting was held at Hitchcock Hall, and after the alumni dinner in 
the gymnasium we separated. 

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THE TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR REUNION (1908). 

N anticipation attractive, in realization a continuous delight, 
in retrospect significant and glorious — such is the plain truth 
concerning the twenty-fifth reunion of the class of 1883. May 
this very imperfect report help many who were present to live over 
in imagination those five memorable days and communicate to the 
unfortunate absentees something of the glow and joy of this 
reunion. It blended the jovial and the serious elements. It knitted 
the class together. 

Whether or not the preliminary work put in by the indefatigable 
secretary and by the committee was a large factor in swelling the 
attendance, it is probable that the dinner in Boston more than a 
year before, Orr's occasional trips to New York, and the series 
of somewhat facetious letters and bulletins sent out from time to 
time influenced some of the men to return to the dear old town, 
bringing with them more or less of the treasures which they had 
accumulated during the quarter of a century. While the attendance 
did not reach the mark set by the ambitious committee, forty-five 
registered during the week. Perhaps half of that number were 
there from Saturday or Sunday to Wednesday. Some fellows like 
"Sprouty" and **Jim Foster" were only able to drop in for a few 
hours. How can you expect lawyers and railroad men upon whom 
devolve important responsibilities to give up a great deal of their 
time to "frivoling?" But we were mighty glad to see these fellows, 
just the same, and as they came and went, they left the savor of 
their cheerful presence. To Fairbank of India and Newell of Japan 
must be awarded the distinction of making the longest journey 
Amherstward; but Trowbridge of Portland had managed to save 
enough from his salary as managing editor of one the brightest 
evening papers on the Pacific Coast, to buy a ticket from Portland, 
Ore. ; while Ed Parsons came from Colorado and Charlie Adams 
from Jacksonville, calm and unhurried as in the days when he used 
to train the Kellogg speakers and run "The Student." 

As for the feminine contingent, we could have wished for more 
but were thankful that nineteen wives had persuaded their husbands 
to bring them, and that thirty-two children were on exhibition. 
The wives were not in every case the same girls we had danced 
attendance upon at the commencement of 1883. Indeed only two of 
our ladies graced that affair twenty-five years ago. These were 
Mrs. Dyer and Miss Bridgman. The largest single ''nursery" 
exhibit was displayed by Ed Parsons, and when his five healthy 
children walked in behind him, somebody called to mind the old 
story about the Adirondack woodsman who captured a moose and 
put it on exhibition. The placard announced "Admission, adults 
15c, families 25c." When a local farmer appeared with eleven chil- 
dren and asked the showman if they could all go in on the twenty- 
five cent basis, he looked at them, and after a moment's pensive 
reflection said, "Well, usually I charge twenty-five cents for 
families; but in your case I think it would be as much of a treat 
for my elk to see your family as for your family to see my elk, so 
you can all go in free." 



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Well it was a treat and a joy to look upon the youngsters of '83. 
They speedily established friendly relationships with one another, 
and we found that they classified into two groups, the "young 
people" and the "children." Some are already in college: Fair- 
banks' two sons, Frank Marsh's, Arthur Rugg's, Wm. Orr's and 
Greenleaf's are at Amherst, Dyer's daughter is at Mount Holyoke, 
Parsons' oldest daughter and son are looking forward respectively 
to Mount Holyoke and Amherst a year hence. Backus' eldest is at 
Trinity, whence he came up during the week for a brief stay. 

Mrs. Perry's house on the corner of Amity and Prospect streets 
had been adorned for our reception with streamers and its spacious 
parlors and piazzas furnished all the room we needed. Those 
unable to secure sleeping accommodations there found them in 
houses near by, and we all took our meals together in Mrs. Perry's 
dining room, just as we used to do at "Cal" Morse's and other 
famous Amherst boarding houses in the long ago. We were well 
taken care of by Mrs. Perry and her capable family and student 
assistants. One of her rooms served as official headquarters where 
the men registered as they arrived, and where the exhibits in the 
way of photographs, books, pamphlets and other personal impedi- 
menta and memorabilia were attractively displayed. 

The fellows did not respond as generally as might be desired to 
the request to bring specimens of their success in the field of 
authorship or samples of the goods they deal in; but one or two 
of Congressman Rainey's stirring speeches on the floor of Congress 
reposed on the table, while on the mantel Pard's excellent school 
edition of Milton's Shorter Poems and Walt Field's choice little in- 
terpretations of standard poets and "Fingerposts to Children's Read- 
ing" were in friendly proximity to a number of pictures of wives 
and children. Among the latter, Charlie Hamilton's two boys, one 
of them resplendent in uniform and looking for all the world like 
his father, arrested the admiring gaze of the younger section of our 
feminine contingent. Photographs of '83 in undergraduate days, 
programmes and other reminders of that far-off time were scattered 
about the room. Nevertheless this purely material exhibit of the 
past and present did not, it must be confessed, arouse any tre- 
mendous interest, for we had the real thing in one another. What 
was the use of reading Field's observations on literature, for 
example, when we could talk with him face to face? So nobody 
lingered very long inside the house ; but all preferred to hold down 
chairs on the piazza or to loaf under the trees. Thither drifted, in 
particular the men who had not brought their wives, and there at 
all hours of the day and evening — yes, and even when President 
Harris was preaching his baccalaureate, a little group could be 
found smoking and chaffing and telling over the old tales. 

It is high time to devote at least one paragraph to Sam Fairbank. 
What the reunion would have been without him, it would be painful 
even to contemplate. Sam is Henry's oldest son, and was then 
entering his senior year. He is the managing editor of The Student, 
and he ought to be the manager of every future reunion of '83. 
Orr enlisted his services months in advance. He conducted the pre- 
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utility man all the time we were in Amherst. He followed up the 
fellows with extraordinary tactfulness to see that they all paid their 
bills before they left. He foresaw and ministered to the wants of 
the ladies, and he was immensely popular with the younger set, as 
was his brother Alan, two years behind him in college ; and one or 
two inches above him in height — who also put us all under obliga- 
tion for services rendered. No man in '83 has more to be thankful 
for in his sons than has "Nugger" Fairbank in his tall young 
striplings, and the class, before the reunion ended, made Sam an 
honorary member. 

Our program had been arranged with a view to providing plenty 
of time for quiet chats together, and so there were not many "set" 
pieces. The fellows began to drift in during the early hours of 
Saturday, and by evening there was a good number on the piazza, 
who responded creditably to the cheers of the other classes when 
the torchlight procession passed by celebrating the baseball victory 
over Williams. Japanese lanterns illuminated the scene and what 
with the red light burned by the younger graduates, it seemed quite 
like a foregleam of the Fourth of July. Every fellow on arrival was 
presented with a handsome '83 device, the figures in gold making a 
very effective emblem. 

After saying "Hello, old fellow," "How you have changed!" 
"Can this be you?" "What on earth are you so bald for?" some of 
us wandered over to Deuel's to join the thirsty crowd desiring to 
slake their thirst once more at the capacious fountain. 

Sunday morning was hot; but the sight of Charlie Hamilton in 
cool flannels, tempered the heat. After all it was ideal weather to 
be out of doors, and a joyous contrast to the reign of Pluvius at our 
twentieth reunion. Church-going not being compulsory, some of 
us were the more inclined to avail ourselves of the opportunity, and 
a very respectable representation of '83 occupied the wing in the 
chapel where we used to sit as sophomores. A few of the fellows 
who thought they didn't want any church that hot morning, 
wandered up late, after loafing under the trees, and took in what 
they could of President Harris' sermon, from under the east win- 
dows of the chapel ; but candor compels the chronicler to state that 
they took in more of the view than they did of the discourse. 

After church came a period of handshaking with the old fellows 
of other classes, another refreshing look at the Pelham Hills, a 
drink at the old well and a good dinner. In the afternoon the con- 
cert in College Hall lured a number and at five o'clock a dozen or 
fifteen men wended their way to the old chapel after the fashion of 
former times. Meanwhile Sandy Noyes had arrived from New; 
York, and began his characteristically entertaining talk on men, 
women and affairs, with less emphasis on the women than on the 
other two subjects of discussion. 

Somehow the committee on the class prayer-meeting had failed 
to apprise Newell, its leader, of the exact hour, and while we 
waited for him on the old steps, we exchanged a few stories, sacred 
and secular. Then we went in for a right good three-quarters of 
an hour together in Prof. Tyler's recitation room. Newell had some 
strong, sane words to say to us touching the things that outlast the 

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things of time. He is a missionary of the modern, broad, optimistic 
type, and his leadership of the prayer meeting inspired Bancroft, 
Orr, Field and Callahan to speak in somewhat intimate vein of the 
way in which life on its deeper side was coming to them and what 
they were finding true and satisfying in their religious experience. 
This prayer meeting was notable for the participation of the laity 
and therefore peculiarly enjoyable. 

In the evening we had a delightful sing, led by Dyer, on the 
piazza, and as night came on, adjourned to the parlor. We prac- 
ticed a little song which Walt Field had written "on compulsion" 
that very morning, having cut the baccalaureate and wandered off 
by himself in search of inspiration. This is the song, sung to the 
tune of "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes." 

Here once again from far and near 

We meet our songs to raise. 

Old Eighty-three we bring to thee 

This hymn of love and praise. 

From plain and mountain, gulf and lake — 

We turn with glad acclaim; 

And on our lips once more we take 

The accents of thy name. 

Fair sits the sun on Amherst's brow, 

And gilds the distant plain; 

Like cloth of gold the fields unfold 

Their waving robes of grain. 

But fairer far than sunlit plain 

Old Amherst's pride appears 

In loyal hearts which firm remain 

Amid the flying years. 

We liked it so well that we used it on every possible occasion 
thereafter. While we were rehearsing it. President and Mrs. Harris 
came in, and their all too brief call was much enjoyed. It was a 
good Sunday, quiet, decorous, joyous, and we went to bed with 
pleasant memories of it and bright anticipations of the morrow. 

Monday was ushered in for some by an excursion to the new 
natatorium, where we had the best kind of a swim. Various degrees 
of proficiency in this clean and cleansing sport were observable; 
but it was fine fun and all were in a sportive frame of mind. The 
environment and the free and easy atmosphere of a swimming tank, 
with somewhat abbreviated costumes conduced to intimate ac- 
quaintance. Charlie Adams snapshotted us while we were in neg- 
ligee, and will probably bring the picture to the next reunion. 

At ten o'clock we started from the Amherst House in a special 
car for the Orient. That term may convey to some readers of these 
lines a picture of the region over Pelham way, whither Tom Com- 
stock, Zach Stuart and Nick used to wander in former years with 
their botany cans, ostensibly in search of flowers, but Bridgey could 
never understand why the cans were so heavy when the fellows 
started and so comparatively light on their return! The Orient — 
at least a portion of it — ^has now become a modern pleasure resort, 

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fitted up with swings and other forms of amusement. It is as lovely 
a bit of out-doors as is to be found anywhere in the Connecticut 
Valley, and there we spent three or four delightful hours sub 
tegmine fagi. One event only marred the outing, and that was the 
accident which befell Griffin's boy, who cut his foot badly when 
wading in the stream. Dr. Bancroft was on hand to stanch the 
bleeding member, and to give the rest of us an exhibition of his 
surgical skill. 




THE CHILDREN OF '83 AT THE ORIENT, JUNE 22, 1908 

It was deemed best to utilize some of the time in a series of 
impromptu talks so that the "girls," who were not to be present at 
the banquet the next night, could gain a little idea of the oratorical 
timber in '83. So as we lolled under the trees, a few of the men 
were called out to tell something about their work in life, and we 
had an immensely entertaining hour together. Bancroft described 
interestingly the medical progress of the last quarter of a century, 
and Hamlin added a supplementary word from the homeopathic 
point of view. Then Semple told of the work of the Public Service 
Commission in New York, with the legal department of which he 
is prominently identified. Jack Manning as a high school principal, 
had some good advice to give parents. Sandy Noyes told a capital 
story and Henry Fairbank gave us a good idea of just what the 
missionaries are trying to do in India. 

These addresses were hardly complete before we were gladdened 
by the arrival of Tom Comstock and wife, with several other new- 

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comers, and then some of the children who had been enjoying 
themselves in the sand and the brook, came scampering up to say 
"Dinner's ready." A committee of the ladies had brought over a 
substantial luncheon, after which the children submitted to the 
camera and we made our way through shady paths to the electric 
car, singing as we went and practicing the new Amherst cheer. 
Old songs and new occupied the time while we were waiting for our 
conveyance, and all the way back to Amherst we were as hilarious 
as children. The rest of the afternoon was given by many to 
attendance upon the ball game. It was a sharp, well played contest, 
up to the last inning — the honors falling to Williams. And almost 
as interesting as the sport on the diamond was the demonstration 
made by the younger classes, who in white duck suits marched 
around the field and gave vent to their enthusiasm by means of 
yells and cheers. 




AMHERST-WILLIAMS BALL GAME 
[By permission of C. W. Hamilton, photo] 

The things on the schedule for Monday evening were the 
Kellogg speaking, at which Joe Kingman acted as judge, and the 
dramatics. A good many of us resorted to one or the other or both. 
Those who went to the dramatics saw a fine ex'hibition of real 
dramatic talent but didn't get home until morning, while those who 
stayed out under the trees in front of Mrs. Perry's, having a jolly 
good talk, considered themselves just as happy as the fellows who 
were broiling in College Hall. 

By Tuesday morning the gathering had taken on all the charac- 
teristics of a house party, and almost everybody knew everybody 
else. Few obtained a good mark for promptness at breakfast ; but by 
nine o'clock a sufficient number had straggled in to enable the 
committee to count on the carrying out of the scheduled features. 
First came the class meeting in the parlors, when Secretary Orr in 
a short time was metamorphosed into President Orr (great 
applause), and J. B. Walker, the devoted worker for the class fund, 
was made secretary. A little later Trustee Patton returned from a 

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meeting with his colleagues and made the joyful announcement that 
J. B. had just been granted an A. B. (tumultuous applause). The 
committee on a gift to the college reported between two and three 
thousand dollars in sight, and it was voted, after some little dis- 
cussion, to assume the cost of an organ for the chapel. It was also 
voted to issue a class book, not to exceed in cost one thousand 
dollars, and Field was given charge with power to appoint his own 
committee. An executive committee of the class was also chosen, 
consisting of Kingman, Bancroft and Comstock. 

Before the adjournment of the meeting, the photographer 
arrived, and after a little delay, owing to a shower, we were 
marshalled, men, women and children, in front of the house, and 
"taken." After that the class visited Professor Crowell's home, where 
the professor and his daughters received us warmly. We also 
called on "Doc," but did not find him until later, 
the college chapel, the old one having gone the way of all the earth. 
This bright idea emanated from Whitcomb's fertile brain, and he 
superintended the informal festivities connected with the planting. 
President Orr made a few pertinent remarks and Field's song was 
again sung. It was a delightful impromptu addition to the things 
that had been planned for during the day. 

Grove exercises came next and they were as merry as of yore. 
President Harris' reception followed. The President and Mrs. 
Harris gave us and their many other guests a charming hour. They 
dwell in the house which in our college days was called the "Con- 
vent." Perhaps it was tender memories of the young lady pupils 
that kept Charlie Hamilton and a few of the other fellows from 
attending the reception! 

But the best was yet to come — the climax of it all — the class 
banquet. That had been held in former years at Walker Hall ; but 
this time we went over to Hamp and made the Draper Hotel the 
scene of our feasting. It was really much better, going out of town 
on the edge of the evening, in a special car, with our wives and 
children looking wistfully after us, than it would have been to have 
walked up to Walker Hall and to have partaken there; for as we 
went swiftly toward the Hampshire Hills memories stirred within 
us of the times when we used to go to Hamp afoot or in the old 
stage, or with one of Steb's rigs, for which we may or may not have 
promptly paid. The electric car takes us the eight miles almost too 
swiftly now. We were hurried through sleepy old Hadley and by the 
Elmwood tavern where in the olden days we used often to "lemonade 
up" coming or going, and soon we were crossing the Connecticut 
and making our way through the familiar streets of Northampton 
to the hotel. Tom Comstock, chairman of the committee, had 
arranged matters so carefully that we went almost at once into the 
banquet room and there we stayed from 8 p. m. until after 3 a. m. 
What mattered it if the impatient trolley driver did clang his bell 
and send us intimations that the electric power would be shut off, 
that we would be stalled in Northampton for the rest of the night? 
Were we not having the time of our lives, and would such an 
occasion be likely to come again? 

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To begin with, we had a good dinner, appetizing and abundant, 
served at little tables each accommodating six fellows. Up at the 
guest table were the honored speakers of the evening, with the class 
secretary and the chairman of the dinner committee. Ed Parsons 
was the toastmaster and he did his part to perfection. The program 
elsewhere printed shows the order of the exercises. The formal 
toasts were each assigned to just the right men. Between the 
courses letters were read from absent classmates, some of whom 
had written with considerable detail regarding their life and work. 

Charlie Adams brought a unique contribution to the dinner in 
the form of what he called a "pome," written by him and adapted to 
the tune of "School Days." He sang it first ; then we got on to the 
chorus and little by little to the whole song. The formal toasts are 
printed in substance elsewhere. Suffice it here to say that Sandy 
was oracular, keen, incisive; Rugg was forceful and brilliant, and 
withal just the same friendly Arthur that he used to be before he 
was elevated to the Supreme Bench. Field's poem was a classic of 
its sort, and was printed in full in the Springfield Republican and 
Chicago Evening Post later in the week, attracting there the wider 
attention which it deserved. "Rashe" Newell helped us to see the 
Orient as he sees it from his point of view in Japan, Charlie Adams 
spoke of the University of Life, and Rush Rhees handled his theme, 
The Unknown Tomorrow, broadly and strongly, and heartened us 
for what it might hold in store. 

The formal speaking completed, there followed a season of most 
delightful, profitable and exceptionally intimate talk. One by one 
each man in the room was called out or arose spontaneously to add 
his word. Cushy, who had broken silence once or twice earlier in 
the evening, had some bright things to say in the intervals between 
the speeches of the others. There is but one Cushy, and what 
would an '83 reunion be without him? Bridgey spoke of his peculiar 
joy in having been at Amherst^ — not only in having gone to 
Amherst, but in having been there with the men of '83. Speaking of 
the intellectual and moral convictions that the years had brought to 
him, he said he thought he believed as much as he did in college 
days; but perhaps he was less inclined now than then to exhort 
others ; that he had come to feel with Justice Holmes that the religion 
of all good men is fundamentally the same, and that he had come 
to have a growing sensitiveness to the goodness of men not reared 
in the same atmosphere as that in which he had been reared, and a 
growing desire to pass on to his children such truths as would not 
have to be unlearned in the schools or in the school of life. He put 
in a word for the cultivation of these '83 friendships during the 
coming years. 

Whitaker told a good story on Bancroft and the latter said that 
the kindly and helpful element in life was coming to mean more and 
more to him from year to year. This same point of view was 
re-enforced by Fairbank, who put service for others far above intel- 
lectual achievements. Whitcomb, as a man who has followed since 
graduating the vocation of schoolmaster, made another helpful con- 
tribution to the thought that increased in seriousness as the night 
went on; and Byington, overcoming his reluctance to speak, called 



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attention sympathetically to the men in the class who had passed 
through great trials and upon whose backs there was still the 
scourge of bereavement, failure or disappointment. His brief wit- 
ness to what the anniversary had meant to him, touched our hearts. 
There were strong words, too, from Patton, Boyden, Dyer, Hatch 
and the others, including President Orr, who rose to the heights of 
real oratory — ^and before we realized it, the fellows had all spoken. 
It was left for Toastmaster Parsons to gather up in a few 
forceful phrases the dominant lesson of the occasion. He quoted 
one of the ladies as saying that if the men of '83 were to be judged 
simply by the wives they had selected, they would rank high in her 
estimation, and he told and applied the story of Lowell's seeing on 
a public institution the sign, "Home for Incurable Children," and 
saying, "They'll take me there some day." 

Those who had fallen in the ranks since the last reunion were 
not forgotten, and in the course of the evening a silent toast was 
drunk to their memory. Callahan dwelt upon Howland's kindly 
spirit that prompted him to unostentatious service for others. Dyer 
alluded to the faithful life and clean record of Frank Fitts, while 
Kingman described his seeing Rounds during his last days. Rounds 
had kept up his old-time interest in the languages and under his 
pillow, after his death, was found a copy of the New Testament in 
Spanish. 

Cold type cannot reproduce this extraordinary meeting. It quite 
exceeded in sentiment and power any other meeting '83 has ever 
held. We came out of it in a tender and exalted mood and the 
quietness that marked the trip back to Amherst was not due to 
the fact that the hour was late, but rather to the desire each man 
had to think over what had happened and store it away among 
the precious memories of his life. When we reached Amherst the 
dawn was breaking. 

Mrs. Perry had to exercise all her native charity at breakfast 
time, for we straggled in up to the last moment the law allowed, 
and beyond. Signs of departure soon began to be evident and the 
sadness of farewell was in the air. However, a good number 
remained to round out the day. The chief feature of the morning 
was the Commencement, in College Hall, in connection with which 
Arthur Rugg was honored by the bestowal of the degree LL. D. 

The alumni dinner saw us located in a good position in the 
crowded "Gym" and we cheered and sang our special song as well 
as we could, considering we had had only two or three hours' sleep, 
and some of our best singers had gone. Our ladies in the gallery 
stood loyally by us and their applause was more to our liking than 
the "amen" which those rascally '78 men chanted just after we 
had finished singing. Rhees represented us in the after dinner 
speaking and we were, as always, proud of him. 

After the handshakes and the exchange of promises to return 
five years hence, off we went on the trolley to Hamp, or by the 
leisurely Massachusetts Central and New London Northern trains. 
Tugging at our hearts was the regret that it was all over, but we 
were also full of a quiet joy and friendliness which will long abide 
with us as the legacy of our twenty-fifth reunion. 



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HONOR ROLL 

Summa cum Laude (Present at all six of the reunions) 

Cushman, Griffin, Nash (H. C), Nash (W. K.), Orr (W.), Whitaker. (6) 

Magna cum Laude (Present at five of the reunions) 

Bardwell (D. L.), Boyden, Callahan, Comstock, Dyer, Kingman, Marsh, Parsons, 
Patton. (9) 

Cum Laude (Present at four of the reunions) 

Bridgman, Byington, Comins, Fitts, Hatch, Houghton, Lew, Noyes, Rugg (A. 
P.), Saben, Semple, Whitcomb. (12) 

Rite (a. Present at three of the reunions) 

Bancroft, Cotton, Fairbank, Greenleaf, Guernsey, Hallett (S.W.)» Hamlin, How- 
land, Manning, Pennock,Rhees, Smith (H. A.), Walker (J. B.), ^A^alker (W.). (14) 

(b. Present at two of the reunions) 

Aborn, Adams, Backus, Field, Foster (G. B.), Johnson, McFarland, Nichols, 
Stebbins, Sprout, Trowbridge,Tuttle(C. A.), Warren, Whittlesey, Orr (E.S.). (15) 

(c. Present at one of the reunions) 

Chesley, Ellison, Fowler, Hamilton, Hyde, Knight, Lewis, Morse, Newell, Rae, 
Rainey, Simonds, Smith (O.), Goodwin, Herrick, Jewett, Wheelwright. (17) 




THE NEW CHAPEL ORGAN 
Presented by the Class of '83 and installed in August, 1908 

Chapel exercis shave shown avast improvement with the installation of the new organ. Last 
year the tendency to treat chapel lightly and disregard the religious significance became excep- 
tionally prominent. The organ creates a new^ atmosphere and has imbued the exercises w^ith a 
different spirit. The class of eighty-three made a happy choice in its selection of a gift for the col- 
lege and the organ is deeply appreciated."— Amherst Student, October 5, 1908. 

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THE BANQUET 

"As we grow older and the shades begin to lengthen and the leaves 
w^hich seemed so thick in youth above our head grow^thin and show^ 
the sky beyond; as those in the rank in front drop away and w^e 
come in sight, as we all must, of the eternal verities beyond, a man 
begins to feel that, among the really precious things of life, more 
lasting and substantial than many or all of the objects of ambition 
here, is the love of those whom he loves and the friendships of those 
whose friendship he prizes. "~Henry Cabot Lodge. 

Toastmaster : Edward S. Parsons. 

Reminiscences Alexander D. Noyes 

Report of the Class Secretary . William Orr 

At the Summit Arthur P. Rugg 

Class Ode, "Noon" Walter Taylor Field 

The University of Life Charles S. Adams 

The Awakening of the Orient .... Horatio B. Newell 
The Unknown Tomorrow Rush Rhees 

Chairman of the Dinner Committee: T. L. Comstock 



SOME OF THE AFTER-DINNER SPEECHES 

REMINISCENCES 

A. D. NOYES 

JHEN we were sitting around our table in the Boltwood 
House, at the ten-year reunion of the class in 1893, two or 
three sub-freshmen passed by, observed the number on 
our banner, and stared curiously at us. Somebody asked, "What 
class was to us, when we entered, as we are to these boys?" It 
was a problem in the old Rule of Three. We figured it up and 
found that the answer was, the class of 1869, and that made us a 
little thoughtful. Figure up on the same basis for this reunion of 
1908 and see what you get. The incoming class stands in relation 
to us as we did to the class of 1854 — ^ period of which not a mem- 
ory survived in the college tradition of 1879 ; nearly a decade before 
the famous classes which volunteered for the war; a time when the 
crew rowed on the Connecticut River, and when the base-ball team 
struggled over that stuffed parlor ornament which the Doctor, dur- 
ing the next half-century, kept under glass in the gymnasium. 

It was certainly a long time ago, — it is so to us as to the fresh- 
men of 1908; yet I think every member of the class recalls the 
events of that early freshman period of our own with more vivid- 
ness than any event which followed. None of us likes to have the 
landmarks of that period removed, — even the ugliest of them. It is 
not quite the same thing even when bath-rooms are put in the 
dormitories and the college well abolished as a necessity of life. 
Five years after graduation I happened to visit the historic old Lin- 
coln's Inn, in London, in search of a solicitor to whom I had a let- 

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ter, and stumbling up the dark and narrow wooden stairways, be- 
came conscious of a rush of Amherst memories, the sudden revival 
of which I could not for a moment understand. Then it all became 
plain. It was that pungent odor of slop pails standing forgotten in 
the dim corridor, and one might have been back again in East Col- 
lege. You always had to pass through that atmosphere before you 
pushed open the door and joined the hospitable groups within, and I 
assure you the associations revived by the aroma on the staircase of 
Lincoln's Inn were pleasant. Some day, perhaps, the dormitories 
themselves will go, and it will be a rooting up of the oldest asso- 
ciations. May the time be far distant! 

Odd reminiscences have the same hold in regard to people as to 
things. J. B. Walker gets his honorary degree with all proper dig- 
nity on this Commencement day of 1908; but J. B. running the 
five-mile go-as-you-please on Athletics day in freshman year is 
the real picture — making his final rounds long after other events 
were on the carpet, in a costume the memory of which twenty- 
eight years have not been sufficient to efface. But what we then 
were and what we then did was, without our knowledge, the fore- 
shadowing of much that we were to accomplish in after life. J. B. 
was bound to finish the race and add one more prize to '83's list in 
the athletic competition, and the persistency with which he did it 
has made its mark on the medical profession in New York city. 
We can, I think, trace a good deal of the achievement of '83 in 
after life to what was exhibited in those queer little episodes of our 
callow period, a quarter of a century ago, and perhaps that is one 
reason why we recall with such particularly indulgent pleasure the 
oddities and eccentricities, even the blunders and absurdities, of the 
four years spent under the shelter of College Hill. 

I do not need to say to you, at this reunion, that nowhere else 
in the world of human experience could the hands of the clock of 
time be turned back as they have been turned back for us this 
week. But there is something more about it than mere reminis- 
cence. How, after all, shall we explain the peculiar tenderness of 
this backward look at our simple college experiences? Daniel 
Webster, arguing the celebrated Dartmouth College case before 
the United States Supreme Court, in the zenith of his power and 
reputation, had finished his exposition of the legal points involved 
in the defense of his Alma Mater's independence of grasping poli- 
ticians. After a moment's pause he continued: "Your Honors, 
Dartmouth is a small college, — and yet there are those who love 
it." The story, which all of you know, is that Webster's voice 
choked as he spoke, and that the justices on the bench, callous as 
they habitually were to appeals to the emotions, drew off their 
glasses to wipe their eyes. 

What was this bond of sympathy in so simple a reference to 
another man's Alma Mater? I suppose each man in the group at 
Washington felt, as we feel here today, that the curtain was lifted 
for a moment, giving a sudden glimpse, back through the inter- 
vening years of toil and struggle, to the big, harmonious family 
which sang that last college song on the campus. The old group is 
scattered now to the four corners of the earth, but the old hearth- 

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stone is still warm, and the old latch-string never hangs inside. 
There are very few such hearthstones and such latch-strings in our 
lives. The fire is out on many hearths where it once blazed cheer- 
fully for us. A good many doors which once swung open at our 
call are closed, and what we do means no longer anything to those 
within. But we know very well, and we know it better as the years 
draw on, that nothing, great or small, which any one of us shall 
achieve in the great world at which we used to gaze with half- 
doubtful, half longing eyes, twenty-five years ago, will fail to send 
a thrill of honest individual pride throughout that generous circle. 

Well, we have grappled with it, this outside world — not al- 
together as we thought we should when we talked the matter over 
on the chapel steps, a quarter of a century ago, and not without a 
good many hard knocks and hard falls. Not many of us have cut a 
figure in the big world which we meant to astonish ; but a record of 
men who have met their responsibilities manfully, and who have 
done the work set before them, is an honorable record. Lincoln's 
saying that God must love the common people, because he made 
so many of them, may be paraphrased into the saying that God 
must take pleasure in a multitude of small achievements well done. 
It is the men who do such things who are the bone and sinew of 
the nation, and the real strength of the alumni roll. 

One word m.ore. The man who has never participated in such 
a gathering as this does not know all that life contains. There is 
nothing quite like it among the milestones which we count as time 
rolls on. It is these kindly reunions at the old home, when the 
everyday scene of business care has faded and we are back again 
in the days when we stood together on the real threshold of life, 
which give meaning to our renewal of the pledge, taken first in the 
fresh enthusiasm of boyhood, that we will be true to ourselves and 
to Amherst. 

AT THE SUMMIT 

ARTHUR P. RUGG 

QUARTER of a century comprises a large part of the 
fruitful life of any human being. That period which has 
elapsed since we were sent forth from the portals of our 
Alma Mater with her gift of training and her benediction has wit- 
nessed stupendous progress in all material affairs. Ills of the flesh 
which had obstinately resisted all the ingenuity of the past have 
yielded to the scientific skill of the physician. The surgeon's knife 
has ceased to be an object of terror, and its beneficent and marvel- 
ous achievements in penetrating the innermost recesses of the body 
and removing the source of pain and the cause of suffering have 
transformed it into a ministering angel. Sanitary science has gone 
hand in hand with that of medicine. It has sought out the causes 
of disease and made the conditions of living tolerable and even 
healthful in regions where heretofore pestilence had stalked by 
noonday and the insidious and death-bringing germ had lurked by 
night. Education no longer appears to confine itself within the 
narrow limits of classic learning and literature. It embraces not 
only the natural and technical sciences but also the far wider fields 

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of manual training and domestic and industrial workmanship. It 
was once a favorite phrase that electricity had been chained and 
made to serve the needs of man. But, although it has been applied 
even in the last quarter century to manifold new uses, its utilization 
has probably barely begun. The wonderful extension of cheap and 
rapid methods of transportation has gone far toward solving the 
problem of the congestion of population in our cities. Agriculture, 
manufacture and mining have all felt the touch of inventive genius 
and scientific investigation. The multiplication of their avenues of 
usefulness was hardly imagined in 1883. 

Not only have we advanced in the arts of peace, but interna- 
tional conventions, expositions and arbitrations, and signally the 
two Hague conferences, give renewed promise of the coming of the 
day when swords shall be beaten into plowshares, and nations shall 
learn war no more. 

Astonishing as has been the advancement in all these material 
ways, the most remarkable event of this twenty-five years, the 
characteristic which will distinguish it in the annals of the cen- 
turies, is the great moral awakening which has swept over this 
country, and to which rich and poor, high and low, strong and 
weak, have alike been compelled to bow. It has lifted all human 
thought and action to a higher plane. The warp of life is of finer 
and firmer moral texture than ever before. 

Twenty-five years out of college ordinarily brings one to the 
summit of his career. Although he may perhaps climb higher in 
the public eye, he is hardly likely to achieve that of which he has 
not already given earnest promise. In these marvelous events to 
which brief reference has been made, none of us, Amherst '83, has 
been a conspicuous part. No one of us, even the most prominent, 
has carved his name where many will pause to read it in a hundred 
years. But this reunion has missed its purpose if it fails to impress 
upon every one of us that success, as the world measures it, is a 
poor test of worth. Measured by eternal truths, it matters not 
whether we acquire wealth, attain eminence or achieve fame. All 
these are trifles. The real thing is that we live a life of service to 
our fellow man and that we fail not to fill to the brim our measure 
of usefulness. The fellows who challenge our deepest interest and 
hold our sincerest respect are not those whose paths have lain in 
pleasant places, even though they may have been upon the heights, 
but those who have met with reverses and not lost courage ; those 
who in business misfortune have bravely faced the future and not 
wasted themselves in vain bemoanings over the past ; those who in 
family affliction have looked toward the rising sun with hope un- 
faltering for a new and better day. It is these whose story of life 
we love to hear and whose hand we clasp with a warmth un- 
known in college days. We realize better now than then that "It is 
the heart and not the brain that to the highest doth attain." These 
men, whether or not they be the ones whose names are most fre- 
quently in the public press, command our respect ; they have scaled 
the heights of our affection. These are at the summit in a truer 
sense than even the college president, the congressman, the doctors 
of divinity or the moneymaking professional or business man. 

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CLASS ODE: "NOON" 

"W ALTER TAYLOR FIELD 
I. 

OON with her clear, straight gaze looks down 

Upon the plain, 
On dusty road-side and on upland brown, 
On the parched wheatfield with its crown 

Of golden grain. 
The morning dew has faded from the grass, 
The breeze has died upon the meadow's breast. 

The skies are brass. 
And in the sun's fierce ray the hedgerows reel and swim. 
Whilst the shrill locust in his tawny vest 
Utters the harsh crescendo of his harvest hymn. 
But hark! a mellow call cleaves the close air 

And strikes the hillside bare; 
It is the horn that tells the noontide hour ; 
The reapers leave their task with jocund glee 
And stretching out their limbs beneath the spreading tree 

They ope their well-filled pail 

With jest and sprightly tale. 
Gaining new power 
And washing their worn spirits free from soil 
Ere they return once more to their accustomed toil. 

II. 

Midway in life's stern quest 
We pause, and with a beating heart unroll 

Once more the mystic scroll 
Which memory hides in every human breast. 
We see again those old, full-handed days 

When all impatient of control 
We opened wide the windows of the soul 

And through the dim, sweet haze 
Life lay before us, large and half-unguessed. 
So here beneath these trees whose shadowy arms outspread 

Sheltered our adolescent hours 
Once more we wander with uncovered head 
And greet the living and call back the dead 
Who walked with us at morn amid the dew and flowers. 

III. 

That patriarchal man, large-limbed and strong, 

Who taught us rightly how to live; 

Intolerant of wrong 
Yet like a father, ready to forgive ; 
As Moses in the desert he on high 

Showed us the fiery torch of Duty in the midnight sky. 
And he who, young in years yet schooled in wisdom's ways, 
A thinker crystalline in thought and speech, 
A soul and intellect fused in the blaze 

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Of generous purpose, — with his deep set gaze, — 

He taught us reason, justice and the spirit's reach 

And in himself we found the virtues that he fain would teach. 

Another most familiar form appears 

Across the gulf of years. 

With snowy hair and beard, 

By youth and age revered 
And honored he. 

The Nestor of the faculty ; 
Steeped in the classics, he esteemed all learning naught 
Weighed with the precious power of pious thought. 
Supporting him, a younger form we see, 
Of middle age and fair rotundity; 
Greek in his love of beauty and of art. 

Yet cosmopolitan in heart. 
He stood among the sculptures and discoursed 
Of life and burning thought by marble laws enforced. 

Then we recall to mind 

He who with us turned o'er 

The pages of the poets' lore, 
A full-souled man, whose twinkling eyes bespoke 

His love of human kind ; 
The light of Chaucer's spirit through him broke 
All unconfined. 

Again we think of him who taught 
The German speech and German modes of thought ; 
A youth at heart, with youth's inspiring glow 

He told of foreign ways 

In jocund phrase 
Which marked his hearty spirit's overflow. 
He too whose "pastoral care" was round us shed. 
Mild in his manners, gentle in his mien ; 
And he of jars and batteries who, misled 

By student guile. 

With patient smile 
Did vainly woo the lightning from his Holtz machine; 
And he who showed to us the art 
Of speaking winged words unmeant for death, — 
An art which following hard, mid awful throes 
We paced the mimic stage with anxious heart 
And in great gusts of superheated breath 
Rescued our country from imagined foes ; 

All these have gone, — 
The inexorable hand has beckoned them and, one by one. 
Laying aside their human joys and cares. 
They have obeyed the summons and passed on 
To take the shining guerdon that is theirs. 

Yet some are with us still ; 

To these a glass we fill, 

And with full hearts and voices raise 
A song of praise. 
He whom today we honor and extol 

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As half a century's splendid service done 

He sits among his books 

And heavenward looks, 
His eyes unconscious of the summer sun 
But with a flood of glory in his soul ; 

And he, our hale and honored friend 

Who taught us to conform 
To nature's laws in sunshine and in storm, — 

Who makes us comprehend 
In his own person, how by living as one should 
He honors God and fills the world with good ; 
He, too, who rough of speech but kind of heart 
Told of the atom's and the molecule's art 

And seemed well-pleased to show 

How little we did know; 
And that good soul beneath whose mild, innocuous sway 
We learned betimes to walk "sur les plancher,"^ — 
If we in those old days caused him some mental pain 
He overlooked our follies and did not complain ;* 
He, too, whose serious aspect did assign 
Weird geometric qualities to arc and line; 
And he who swept the heavens to find a star. 
Unmindful of how many there already are ; 
Also the one who opened to us history's book 
Pregnant with lessons, — if we would but look; 
And he who sent us to pursue 

By brookside and in bog 

The incipient frog 
And study its mysterious life anew ; 
Likewise the man who gave each harmless stone 
A fearsome name, most awful to pronounce, when known ; 
And, last of all, those tutors twain 
Who like the twin Dioscuri 
Of Roman fable aided us amain 

In our fierce fight to make the ancient verbs agree ; — 
These friends still linger and bring back once more 
The memory of those golden days of yore. 

IV. 
Of our own number some have loosed the chain 

That held them here; 
For these we raise no sad funereal strain. 

We shed no idle tear. 
For whether life be short or full of years 
It matters not. 

For time is soon forgot; 
He only lives who while he lives grows strong 
in honest toil, filling his life with song. 
So while our comrades have gone on before 
We, glad of life and of the chance it lends 
To make amends 

For all that we have done amiss. 



*Professor Montague has now joined "the great majority." He died at Amherst, August 3, 1908 
aged 77 years. 

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Thankful for all it holds of human bliss, 
Clasp hands once more. 

V. 
The years have sped 
Each with her meed 
Of joy and sorrow, tempered to our need ; 
The boys are men, and on each brow and head 
A touch of early frost proclaims that youth has fled. 
Some have attained the honors men count dear, 
Some, looking for a high career, 

Have found instead 
Mid failure and defeat 
The better way 
And in the soul's dim, fathomless retreat 
Have battled and grown strong unseen of mortal clay. 

VI. 

Success oft wears a mask ; 
To one she comes in likeness of despair, 

In sable robes of care, 

Making her favorite ask 
What new misfortune on his path is shed, 
While to another in more winning guise 
She soft approaches, and with smiling eyes 
Places a wreath of roses on his head. 
False effigies of her likewise outwit 

With subtle lure. 
Wearing her features and her bright investiture 
And bearing gifts which like themselves are counterfeit. 
Some men distinguish her by what she wears 
And if her garments be not broidered o'er 

With gold, they know her not : 
Some look to see if in her hands she bears 
The wreath of bay — nor do they ask for more ; 
Some seek the glance of power, some the kindly thought, 
But whether she has lingered at your door 
You cannot know — she sometimes comes unsought; 
Only the angel of the golden pen 
May write the truth so vainly guessed by mortal men. 

VII. 

As youth sets forth elate 
Upon the journey that we all must go 

Pitfalls his steps await, — 
Floods, chasms, marshes wild and desolate 
And fraught with more of danger far than they 
Soft, siren voices luring him astray. 
These passion-perils o'er, the way becomes more clear 

Yet flat and sere 
And void of springing blade or sheltering tree, 
A wilderness of dull conformity ; 
Happy is he who with uplifted face. 

Sustained by God's good grace, 

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Looks up nor stoops to count the stones beneath his feet 
Or watch the sage-brush through the dust and heat, 
But sees the sun-shot clouds above his head 

In aery legions led, — 

The glory of the sky — 
And far away upon the landscape's rim 
The purple mountains beckoning to him 

Serene and high. 

VIII. 

O, star-eyed goddess of the filmy wing 

Whom poets of old did sing. 

Who, pierced by mortal pains. 

O'er drear Thessalian plains 
With steadfast heart and pilgrim staff didst rove 
Seeking thy god in mountain, grot and grove, — 
O spiritual essence that transcends 
All earthly power and all selfish ends 

And ever heavenward turns. 
Give us the passion of thy high desire, 
Touch us with embers from the sacred fire 

That on thy altar burns. 
Or, better. Thou to whom the ages bow, 

Groping for thoughts of Thee 
Mid shadowy myth and darksome imagery, 

Thou Spirit Absolute 
Who through our flesh betimes dost glimmeringly shine 
Proving our kinship with the life divine 

And lifting us above the brute. 
Thou, mighty God, from age to age the same. 
Uphold us as each at his homely labor delves, 
Keep us from sordid thought and paltry aim 

And save us from ourselves. 

IX. 

Thus with a prayer upon our lips. 
Softened by memories of old comradeships 

We turn, dear Mother, unto thee. 
Throned on thy beauteous hills in calm, sweet dignity. 
The sunlight on thy forehead, thy fair face 
Radiant with love, touched with immortal grace, 
Wearing a crown of amaranth on thy brow, 

A very queen art thou ! 
And we, thy children, to thy service true. 
Gathered from whitening plain and city street 

Stand at thy feet 
Bearing our offerings in our outstretched hands, — 
Some bringing talents ten, some twain. 

Some but a sprig of rue. 
But all obedient to thy commands. 
Loving thee with a love unsoiled by earthly stain 

And pledging thee anew. 

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THE UNIVERSITY OF LIFE 

CHARLES S. ADAMS 

R. PRESIDENT AND CLASSMATES: Last Sunday, 
feeling a little under the weather and having plenty of 
"cuts" to my credit, I took my share of the baccalaureate 
sermon in broken doses on the grass back of the college church, 
and in the drowsy June atmosphere. As I lost consciousness of the 
lingering cadences of the organ and the murmured responses of the 
faithful, my eyes lifted above the groups of well dressed loiterers, 
over the peaceful valleys to the green hills beyond, and in the back- 
ward retreat of time I seemed to see with memory's vision my own 
counterfeit presentment, some quarter of a century ago, resting on 
one of the benches by the church, and dreaming what fate had in 
store. 

There was almost as much pleasure in lingering over the 
past as there had been in anticipating the future. There was con- 
siderably more satisfaction in the idle moment than in the unavoid- 
able mental trial balance showing the actual debits and credits 
which the years had posted. How little has been realized of the 
ambitious hopes! We were taught to believe in the old days that 
the cold world was something very different from that particular 
phase of life realized in college work and college play, and yet, in 
the light of experience, the college life foreshadowed on a small 
scale the broader, deeper and larger existence we are now passing 
through. 

Were I to put the question to business men, "Does the college 
help a man in after life?" I should undoubtedly elicit various opin- 
ions, but if I were to ask those present who are sorry that they 
wasted the time to graduate in the class of '83 at Amherst, to stand 
up, I think no one would rise — and I am sure he would regret it if 
he did. 

And yet the actual, practical value of the college course to the 
ordinary graduate is rather intangible, difficult to measure, impossi- 
ble to express to the outside scoffer. Of course to the teacher the 
scholastic experience is immediately available, but to the graduate 
seeking an opening in busy commercial life the time spent in acquir- 
ing Latin, Greek, chemistry, mathematics and optionals sometimes 
seems hardly a satisfactory substitute for years spent at the foot of 
the ladder, in factory, bank, store or railroad. 

Were I to attempt to summarize the direct benefits of college 
life I should say they might be generalized under the following 
heads: (i) The ability to obtain information from the experience of 
others through the use of libraries and books; (2) The habit of 
weighing, comparing, contrasting such information and reaching 
logical results by individual independent thought; (3) The faculty 
of correctly expressing such results in terse language easily com- 
prehended by the average reader; (4) Success in impressing an 
audience with the same results. 

But even as the mild college hazing, the rivalry of college sports, 
the competition for college honors, rubs away the egotism, sup- 
plants the selfishness and awakens the reasonable ambition of the 

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high-school graduate, so all these make, too, for success in the best 
meaning of the word, beyond the undergraduate life. 

I think our definition of that word "success" has changed some- 
what. It is something deeper and more comprehensive than its 
usual commercial, political and social significance. Success as de- 
fined by the millionaire who wants more dollars, by the local poli- 
tician who seeks higher office, by the society leader who pines for 
greater distinction, hardly satisfies the college man graduated with 
the desire to do something for the happiness and uplifting of his 
fellow man. 

There seems to be an undercurrent in public life now setting 
away from the strong tide that has swept forward during the past 
years to commercial success. The chase after the almighty dollar 
does not appear to fully satisfy the thoughtful man of today. The 
"trust-buster" and the "muck-raker" are but indications of an awak- 
ening of the classes to the needs of the masses, and it is to the 
college man that we must look for the inspiration and leadership in 
those reforms which seek a more equitable distribution of the 
rewards of life among the toilers. 

The class of Eighty-three has not many examples of successful 
men whose careers awaken envy among the plodders. Thanks be! 
True, we have a congressman, a Supreme Court judge, a college 
president, several authors and some professional men whom the 
newspapers keep track of, but they do not put on any airs with us. 
As for me, I do not envy them. My heart goes out to the man 
with the hard luck story, who has kept up his courage and faith in 
his kind and has plugged away at his daily task under adverse cir- 
cumstances. We have some members of this class. Give them a 
hand. They have made good. But if they had not, we love them 
just the same. 

The man I envy is the one of sunshiny disposition, who 
has time to keep the love of his wife and children and to win 
the affection of his neighbor, with sympathy to spare for the unfor- 
tunate. I admire the man who jokes and jollies, who goes fishing 
and attends the ball game, who loves the flowers, watches the birds, 
and is contented with his sphere in life, however humble it be. 

There is one thing more we got from college, and more than all 
the other advantages does it deserve preserving and cherishing. 
No one who has spent this evening here, who has heard these fel- 
lows open their hearts to each other, more freely than many have 
done in the last twenty-five years, can doubt the priceless value of 
the old college friendships conceived in strenuous freshman days, 
fostered through four happy years of comradeship, renewed by oc- 
casional meetings and desultory correspondence and preserved with 
loyal constancy through the quickening years. 

I am glad I came. It has done me good. I am coming again, — 
and now permit me to present this modest little "pome," 
set to a familiar tune, for which I offer no apologies. The program 
committee tried to squelch it, but it has been printed by private sub- 
scription. I bear no malice. It was ever my lot to have my poetical 
abilities underrated. Here it is : Let her go, all together ! 

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BACK AGAIN 

Tune: "School Days" 

O time to spare, dear old classmate, 
Can't get away, you know. 
Thanks for the bid, makes me feel like a kid, 
Sure thing, I'd like to go. 
'Tis many a year since I've been back. 

And many another before 
I will be free from business, to be 
One of the old gang once more. 

Chorus: Amherst, Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, 
Her's is the one voice that speaks to me now. 
Calls me ae^ain to remember my vow 
Not to forget her in all my life, — 
For mother, nor sister, nor children, nor wife, 
Nor business, nor pleasure, can keep me away, — 
I'll go to her once more today. 

Tear up my letter and burn it, 

I've altered my mind, old man ; 
This wire will be due notice from me 

I'll take the first train I can. 
Tell all the boys that I'll be there, 

Urge all the balance to come, 
Let's take the big prize and open their eyes. 

We'll put all the rest on the bum. 
Chorus : (The same, except the last line :) 
I'll be with her once more today. 

Hello, old sport, how're they coming? 

Be gad, it is good to be here ! 
'Tis a sight for sore eyes to see all you guys, 

We'll paint the town red, never fear. 
One score and five is a mighty long time 

To get up a thirst, don't you see? 
Let's quench it blame quick ; I don't hear you kick, 

Here's a bumper to old Eighty-three. 

Chorus: (The same, except the last line:) 
I'll be with her day after day. 

Some of the old friends have left us. 

Close up the ranks with a sigh. 
For they were men, did their work well, I ken, 

We'll see them, I trust, bye and bye. 
Others there are who got cold feet. 

Couldn't get off, so they say. 
Give them a cheer, they ought to be here. 

We love all the absent today. 

Chorus : (The same, except the last line :) 
I'll be with her just for today. 

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Good-bye ; again we must part, lads, 

Take up the fight on the run ; 
But it was great, it quite took the cake, 

The picnic, and banquet, and fun. 
Let's do it some more, only sooner, 

Some day we will drop out of line. 
Bye-bye, — glad I came ; it helps out the game ; 

God bless you and yours for all time. 

Chorus: (The same, except the last line:) 

I'll be with her once more some day. 



THE UNKNOWN FUTURE 

RUSH RHEES 

R. TOASTMASTER AND CLASSMATES : I must frank- 
ly confess to you that my toast is not of my choosing. On 
this occasion and in this company I should much prefer a 
less formal task and a less serious topic. Yet it is obvious to us all 
that our toastmaster had no desire to introduce at this point in his 
programme either a religious homily or a philosophical speculation. 
Rather may we infer that the topic is a modest echo of the confident 
prophecies which formed a familiar article on the intellectual bills 
of fare at our earlier banquets. 

Our poet in his words of musical charm and confident optimism 
has struck the keynote for any song about the future that can here 
be sung. We have gathered in all the strength of our mature man- 
hood. Many battles are behind us. Many early dreams have faded 
out into mist. Not a few hopes have found no fulfilment which our 
ardent hearts would have recognized as such in the early years of 
our great expectations. 

On the other hand, life's surprises have not all been disappoint- 
ments. Many of us have trodden paths we never dreamed of, which 
have led us into goodly places and have shown us unexpected 
stores of the goodness of life, unexpected proofs of the wisdom of 
God. 

Men who have been trained to think can not come to such a time 
and occasion as this without taking account of the experiences we 
have passed and the wisdom or folly of the expectations with which 
we left our Alma Mater five and twenty years ago. One thing of a 
surety is now clear to us all — that is that the worth of life does not 
consist in the abundance of the things that we possess — else for 
most of us our song would be in large part lamentation. We do not 
despise possessions nor pleasures nor the other goods for which 
men eagerly strive. Many of us will go away again this week and 
enter eagerly again upon the struggle to win what we may in this 
race we all run. But here tonight, as we look into each others' faces 
and see that life has dealt best with some from whom these prizes 
have been withheld, we know that the years have brought to us no 
rewards that can compare with the consciousness of some work well 
done, with the wealth lavishly shed upon us in the love of our fami- 

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lies, with the satisfactions of strong friendships between man ana 
man, deepening as the years go by, and with the character which 
grows in us by all our struggles against what is base and mean in 
life. 

Such reflections do not signify that the vision splendid by which 
as youths we found our life attended has faded into the light of 
common day. Rather as "Jule" used to remind us, are we conscious 
still that it is 

"yet the fountain light of all our day. 
Is yet the master light of all our seeing." 

For the years, with all their changes, have brought to us a quieter 
faith, less aggressive yet more trustful; a gentler judgment, less 
ready to speak because more conscious of frailty; a deeper moral 
certainty because rooted in some experience of the ways of that 
Eternal Power which makes for righteousness, and in a fuller con- 
sciousness of the hunger and thirst that can find satisfaction only in 
triumphant goodness. 

If these experiences have brought a chastened expectation, they 
have brought one the foundations of which are more clearly seen. 
It is in this growing discovery of the foundations on which the 
future is now building that we stand today better assured than we 
could have been when we first left Alma Mater's care. That future 
is the house our hands are building. We know better today than we 
could know twenty-five years ago the truth Milton's Satan con- 
fessed : "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven 
of hell, a hell of heaven." We cannot control the circumstances of 
our future, nor foresee the paths in which our feet shall tread. But 
our own past has told us that these do not make life. So, standing 
here at our high noontide, under the shadow of Alma Mater's gen- 
erous love, we look forward confidently and "greet the Unseen with 
a cheer." If we cannot foresee its circumstances nor forecast its re- 
wards and disappointments, we do know how to assure its deeper 
joys and more essential satisfactions, for they are the fruit of today 
and of each coming tomorrow. 

Gathered here for such an outlook the prospect would be dull 
and hazy if we did not know that the best of the attainments of the 
years that are gone are such as 

"the world's coarse thumb 
And finger failed to plumb. 
So passed in making up the main account ; 
All instincts immature. 
All purposes unsure, 
That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount." 

These "instincts immature," these "purposes unsure," are the 
buds from which the flowers of the future will blossom, to bring 
good fruitage. 

So, classmates, fare we forth to work manfully, to enjoy life 
rationally, to cherish friendship increasingly, and to rejoice in truth 
and goodness triumphantly. 

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A GREETING FROM "DOC." 

Y DEAR BOYS OF '83 : It is certainly most blessed good 
that I am asked to help you out in material for your twenty- 
five year class celebration. And when I remember that you 
are the largest class in the decennial period of the eighties I am all 
the more proud and happy that I can talk to a big lot. And let me 
rejoice with you in that, though your class is larger than the one 
before you and the one after you, your starred list is the smallest of 
the three. We hope it is because you are all of you so tough and 
so good. 

We rejoice with you because you have come back and made 
yourselves so blessed to us in that new organ. The little piping 
instrument that served its day for chapel service during your college 
quadrennial did its work well but it was not enough for the growing 
college. But now with the growth of music under Professor 
Bigelow, the much desired accompaniment is such a sweet blessing 
to worship service in^ chapel. The instrument is most perfectly 
adapted to the accompaniment of male voices. It is a wonderful 
adaptation and by it we can not only worship God more heartily 
but it is a great aid when we sing the "Cheer for Old Amherst" 
and other songs. And, by the way, this is a new feature in our 
chapel services. Once in a week after we are gathered for chapel 
and have sung the Doxology the leader of the Glee Club mounts 
the platform and for ten minutes gives out college songs and hymns. 
Every man has a book and all stand up and get a little good prac- 
tice. This familiarizes all college with our songs, so that at ball 
games and in public or class gatherings we have a grand volume of 
sound, much to the credit of the college. 

We have Mr. Norris, a Yale graduate, as secretary of our 
Y. M. C. A., so that with him to lead and look after things, and the 
little endowment of Mr. Gaylord of Chicopee, this branch of college 
service is a well-growing strength to us. 

And now with first class preparations in Hitchcock Hall and a 
superior man to run the cuisine we are strong in the feeding line, — 
and with 250 men now at the commons we are stronger than ever 
before in this branch of college service. 

And with two clerical assistants to our Registrar's force Mr. 
Goodale is now able to answer with speed and accuracy the thou- 
sand and one questions put to him daily and hourly. And with his 
sets of cards and records the condition of every student is so nicely 
adjusted that it takes but a moment for him at any time to know 
his whereabouts in college standing. 

But I am giving you more than you ask for. I only want to beg 
of you to send Mr. Fletcher or myself any printed memorabilia 
about yourselves that we may have in this collection all that you 
knpw is said of yourselves, and also remember that we have an 
alcove where we place, label, and arrange every production of yours 
whether it be a bound volume or a newspaper scrap. This is a 
scheme to learn all we can about any student or teacher who has 
ever been connected with college in any shape or manner, which 

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not only the future historian will want but which the newspaper 
reporter will consult for his material. 

In college chapel is a new feature to make us proud of Alma 
Mater. Mr. George A. Plimpton, '76, president of the Board of 
Trustees, has commenced a collection of first class portraits of our 
eminent alumni. As a beginning, today there hangs in college 
chapel first rate oil paintings of Mr. Beecher, Professor F. A. 
March, Gov. Bullock, Mr. G. A. Grow, President Hitchcock, and 
Lord Amherst. Some others are in the artist's hands. These are 
not a part of the general collection in the library, but hang in chapel 
as an inspiration to the students. 

Now, good bye, and remember Alma Mater, by endowments of 
scholarships, fellowships, and professorships, and by sending to us 
the best young men under your influence. And don't forget to com- 
mend us, faculty and students, to that good God who has carried 
the college through many hard places, and has given us such success 
in the work of making the world better, wiser and stronger. And 
come often back to see us, — how we do, and how we grow. 

Your old friend, 

E. Hitchcock. 
Am.herst, October 26, 1908. 



A WORD FROM PROFESSOR CROWELL 

O THE CLASS OF 18S3: Gentlemen— At the celebration, 
last commencement, of the twenty-fifth anniversary of your 
graduation, it was my good fortune to receive at my house 
those of you who were in town on that occasion. This was to me a 
very delightful interview. And now, through the courteous invita- 
tion of the editor of your class book, I am able to renew, in this way, 
the acquaintance formed with you as a class in your undergraduate 
days, the remembrance of which is exceedingly pleasant to me. 

Permit me to avail m^yself of this opportunity to offer my hearty 
congratulations on the success which has attended you during this 
quarter-century period of your graduate life, and on the strong 
influence which you have exerted, individually and collectively, in 
various ways, for the promotion of the welfare of the college. 

I can but express the earnest wish that your prosperity may not 
only remain unimpaired, but may ever increase in the future, and 
that you may continue to reflect honor upon your Alma Mater and 
to render much valuable service to her highest interests. 

With most cordial regards, very sincerely your brother-alumnus. 

E. P. Crowell. 
Amherst, December 18, 1908. 




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THE MEN OF EIGHTY-THREE 

VERETT ANDERSON ABORN, who led our class — alpha- 
betically — was born December 31, 1859, ^t Ellington, Con- 
necticut, where he lived until the end of his college course. 
After gaining a mastery of the "three R's" in one of the schools of 
his native village, he took his college preparatory course at the 
Monson (Massachusetts) Academy, and entered Amherst with the 
other members of the Class of Eighty-three in the fall of 1879. At 
Amherst he was a member of the Torch and Crown — now Beta 
Theta Pi — and represented his society on the Olio Board. C After 
graduating he taught for one year in the Shattuck Military School 
at Faribault, Minnesota, and for one year in Lake Forest University, 
Lake Forest, Illinois. He then studied for two years at the Union 
College of Law in Chicago, graduating in June, 1887, with the 
degree of LL. B. He was one of the prize men at the Union Col- 
lege of Law and also one of the commencement speakers. While 
pursuing his legal studies he served an apprenticeship in the law 
office of E. F. Runyan of Chicago. Cln the fall of 1887, following 
his graduation from the law school, he opened an office of his own, 
and has been engaged continuously since that time in the practice 
of law. His rooms are in the Marine Building, in which Claflin 
also had an office for many years. Aborn is unmarried. He 
received in 1886 the degree of A. M., in course, from Amherst. 
C Address: Office, Room 211, 154 Lake Street, 



Chicago. 



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jj^^HARLES SULLIVAN ADAMS, better known as "Charlie" 
Rlr^ Adams, was born June 27, i860, at Burlington, Vermont, and 
1^^^?] fitted at Williston Seminary. In college he was a Delta 
Kappa Epsilon, an "E. Pi D.," managing editor of "The Student," 
and winner of the Kellogg and Hyde oratorical prizes. C After 
graduation he went to Chicago and sold buzz saws for the Simonds 
Manufacturing Company one year. Then he studied law in Jack- 
sonville, Florida, spending the winter of 1885-6 in Boston at the 
Boston University Law School, and there doing three years' work in 
one. Returning to Jacksonville, he practiced successively with 
A. W. Cockrell and Son, Call and Adams, and Adams and L'Engle. 
When the yellow fever broke out in 1888 he stayed in the city, 
became secretary of the Sanitary Association, and had charge of the 
funds contributed, amounting to half a million dollars. Four out 
of the nine members of this committee died from the scourge. CIii 
1889 he married Claudia C. L'Engle, who died six years later. In 
the Jacksonville fire (1901) he lost everything he had. For two 
years thereafter he was secretary of an abstract company; then 
resumed the practice of law. Firm name. Young and Adams. He 
has been President of the Jacksonville Bar Association (1906), mem- 
ber of the City Council (1889-92), United States Commissioner 
(1889-92), Master in Chancery of the United States Circuit Court 
(1898-1908). In 1904 he was one of the Republican nominees for 
the Supreme Court, ft In 1898 he married Ella MacDonell and 
has two children, Emily Marion, born 1901, and Charles S., Jr., 1906. 
d Address : 25 Lomax Street, Jacksonville, Florida. 

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j^^gnOHN ROGERS AYER was born February 15, 1856, at South 
^7^4V Killingly, Connecticut, and prepared for college at the Hart- 



d ford (Connecticut) High School. CAfter graduating from 
Amherst he taught school for several months at Sprague, Connecti- 
cut, but soon became satisfied that his health would not stand the 
confinement of the schoolroom. He, therefore, went to work on a 
large fruit farm at Sprague, where he spent a year. While there 
he became wedded to the soil and bought a farm at Sturbridge, 
Massachusetts. He was also wedded, the same year, to Caroline 
Hall Rankin of Newark, New Jersey. After a year on the Stur- 
bridge farm he took a place near Peekskill, New York, where he 
could be near the New York market. Here he spent five happy, 
peaceful years. CIn 1891 he took up for a time the work of a civil 
engineer and surveyor, making his headquarters in Yonkers, New 
York, but the call of the soil was too strong to resist, and in the 
spring of 1903, when the wheat began to sprout, he went back to 
Massachusetts, bought a farm at Richmond, up in the hill country 
on the "Boston and Albany," and is still there, raising the best 
asparagus that can be found in New England. At a little dinner 
which some of the fellows arranged, to celebrate Arthur Rugg's 
elevation to the Supreme Bench, Ayer sent down his tribute in the 
form of a box of this aristocratic vegetable, which those who partook 
of it testify was just a little better than any they had ever before 
tasted. He says his photograph is a reasonable likeness, but 
his wife thinks he is better looking. C Address: Richmond, 
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j^^dLINTON JIRAH BACKUS was born October 5, 1853, at 
IIp^ Chaplin, Connecticut, and prepared for college at Monson 
[■^^^ Academy. He was a member of the Torch and Crown, and 
was on the editorial board of "The Student." CThe autumn after 
graduating he accepted a position as instructor of Latin, Greek, and 
Natural Science in Allen Academy, Chicago. Here he remained until 
the beginning of the following school year, when he was made prin- 
cipal of Baldwin Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. Later he bought 
this school and has managed it ever since, except for the two years 
1 897- 1 899, when he went to Alaska as president of the Alaska 
Commercial Company. He was married June 6, 1886, to Carrie L. 
Haskins of Spokane Falls, Washington, for whom he conceived a 
tender attachment while a fellow-teacher with her at Allen 
Academy. Backus naturally appreciated the association of the 
sexes in school work, and his Seminary was co-educational until 
1903. Then, however, the modern movement for segregation con- 
quered, and it is now "Baldwin Seminary," for boys, and "Oak 
Hall," for girls. Mrs. Backus is principal of the girls' school. 
Last year it enrolled 170 girls, representing nine states. Backus 
has other investments than those of the intellect and is a director 
in the St. Paul Tropical Development Company. CThe family 
consists of four children, Clinton Jirah, Jr. (Trinity '10), born 
September 22, 1887; David Hiram, born March 7, 1893; Romayne, 
born March 5, 1895; Una, born January 22, 1897. C Address: 578 
Holly Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota. 



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DWARD ERASTUS BANCROFT was born at Lancaster, 
Massachusetts, September lo, 1858, and fitted at the Lan- 
caster High School. At Amherst he was a Phi Beta 
After graduating, in '83, he entered Harvard Medical 
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his law course at the same time 

in Cambridge, continuing together throughout their professional 
courses. A large part of Bancroft's second year at the Medical 
College was spent in recovering from an illness which narrowly 
missed having a fatal termination. He philosophically regards it 
as a valuable experience in preparation for dealing with the sick, 
though it did not so impress him at the time. In 1886 he completed 
his course and received from Harvard the degree of M. D. Soon 
afterward he went to Waltham and began to practice, but it soon 
became evident to him that Waltham was not the most desirable 
place for a white man, and he therefore moved to Wellesley in 
April, 1887, where he has remained ever since. He has a large 
private practice and in 1903 was appointed consulting physician in 
Wellesley College. In 1903 he received from Amherst the degree 
of A. M., in course. CHe was married August 6, 1890, to Josephine 
A. Given of Bowdoinham, Maine, and with Mrs. Bancroft spent 
three months abroad. They have three children: Margaret, born 
July 20, 1891 ; Richard, born December 26, 1892; and Philip, born 
October 12, 1897. Address: Wellesley, Massachusetts. 



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ARWIN LONG BARDWELL, known in college as 
"D. L.", was born March 30, i860, at Shelburne, Mas- 
Si sachusetts. He received his elementary education in his 
native town and fitted at the Greenfield (Massachusetts) High 
School. At Amherst he was an Olio editor and a Phi Beta 
Kappa. C After graduating he taught a year in the country schools 
of Champaign county, Illinois. The next year he was classical 
teacher in the Greenwich (Connecticut) Academy and for the next 
five years, until 1890, was principal of the Union and High School 
at Greenport, New York. He then became head of the Science 
Department of the State Normal School at Cortland, New York, 
where he remained eight years. During part of this time he was a 
lecturer and summer instructor at Thousand Island Park, New 
York. In 1898 he was appointed High School Inspector under the 
University of the State of New York, was made conductor of 
teachers' institutes and a member of the State Board of Exam- 
iners. From 1899 to 1902 he was Superintendent of Schools at 
Binghamton, New York. Since that time he has been one of the 
District Superintendents of Schools of New York City, assigned 
to Richmond Borough. During the past year he has been Presi- 
dent of the New York State Teachers' Association. CHe was 
married December 28, 1885, to Alice Margaret Babb of Champaign, 
Illinois, and has two sons: Harold Edmond, born December \'2., 
1886, and Darwin Eugene, bom June 8, 1896. C Address: 61 
St. Mark's Place, New Brighton, New York. 



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ALLACE CLARKE BOYDEN, known as "Boy," was 
born November 22, 1858, at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. 
He graduated from the Bridgewater State Normal School 
as valedictorian of his class in 1879 and entered Amherst. He was 
an Alpha Delta Phi, Sigma Psi, and Phi Beta Kappa, president of 
the Athletic Association, member of the Glee Club and college ball 
nine, a monitor and commencement speaker. He received the 
degree of A. M. from Amherst in 1886. C After graduation he was 
principal of the Stoughton, Massachusetts, High School for one 
year, and head of the mathematical department in Williston Semi- 
nary from '84 to '89, when he was appointed master in the Boston 
Normal School. He became Head Master in 1900 and has since 
held that position. He served several years on the school com- 
mittees in Easthampton and Newton, Massachusetts, was a charter 
member and second president of the Boston Young Men's Congre- 
gational Club, and is a Past Master of the Masonic Lodge in 
Newton. The summer of 1906 he spent abroad with his family. 
He has written "A First Book in Algebra," a monograph on "The 
Teaching of Arithmetic," and a genealogy of the Boyden family in 
America. COn July 8, 1885, he was married to Mabel Rossiter 
Wetherbee of Marshfield Hills, Massachusetts, and has three chil- 
dren: Robert Wetherbee, born March 7, 1889, now a junior at 
Harvard, Alice Gordon, July 18, 1892; Bartlett Wetherbee, 
October 2, 1899. CAddress: 221 Walnut street, Newtonville, 
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ALLEN BRIDGMAN, familiarly known as 
entered this world via Northampton, Massachu- 
^ setts, August 20, i860. He prepared for college at the 
Northampton High School and passed his entrance examinations 
for Amherst in the spring of 1878; but did not enter college until 
the autumn of '79. He was a Psi Upsilon, Sigma Psi, and Phi Beta 
Kappa, a "Student" editor. Junior class historian, and an actor in our 
senior dramatics. C After graduating from Amherst he served for 
a year as principal of the high school at Granby, Massachusetts. 
He then spent a year at Hartford Theological Seminary, and in the 
autumn of 1885 entered the middle class of Yale Divinity School, 
graduating with the degree of B. D. in May, 1887. In July of that 
year he was made associate editor of "The Congregationalist" and 
was promoted in 1891 to the position of managing editor, which he 
has held ever since. CHe was married July 27, 1898, to Helen 
North Bryant, a daughter of Rev. R. A. Bryant, then residing at 
Witherbee, New York. They have three children, Harriet, born 
August 26, 1899; Edwin Bryant, born November 21, 1901 ; Marion, 
born February 15, 1907. In June, 1908, Bridgey received the degree 
of Doctor of Divinity from Oberlin College. He has written fre- 
quently for papers and magazines, and is the author of a most useful 
book entitled "Steps Christward," published in 1903, by the Pilgrim 
Press, Boston. C Address: Office, Congregational House, 14 
Beacon street, Boston; Home, Brookline, Massachusetts. 



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jHARLES HENRY BUTLER was born November 27, i860, 
at Washington, District of Columbia. He attended Colum- 
bian University, Washington, and entered Amherst as a 
senior. After graduating he taught in the public schools at Wash- 
ington, and at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Having decided to study 
theology, he returned to Washington in '84 and began to study 
under the direction of his father. Rev. John G. Butler, taking 
Hebrew and Greek Exegesis at Howard University. In January, 
1886, he entered the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, 
and in the fall of the same year went to Union Theological Semi- 
nary, where he graduated in May, 1887. The following spring he 
went abroad and spent nearly a year in study and travel. From 
1839 to 1892 he was associated with his father in the pastorate of the 
Luther Place Memorial Church of Washington. In 1892 he organ- 
ized the Keller Memorial (English) Lutheran Church of Washing- 
ton and w^as its pastor until November, 1907. During this period, 
from 1893 to 1904, he also taught Hebrew and the Life of Christ, in 
the theological department of Howard University. In 1904 he 
accompanied the World Sunday School Cruise to Jerusalem. For 
fifteen years he has been connected with the "Lutheran Evangelist," 
first as contributor and later as a member of the editorial staff. In 
1907 he returned to his work in the Luther Place Memorial Church. 
f[He married Helena L. Johnson in 1905 and has one child, Mar- 
garet Elizabeth, born March 24, 1907. CAddress: 229 Second 
street, S. E., Washington, District of Columbia. 

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^^DWIN HALLOCK BYINGTON, or "By," for short, was 
^^^^ born of missionary parents, at Adrianople, Bulgaria, Decem- 
^g^l ber 15, 1861. He attended Roberts College, Constantinople, 
and Phillips Andover. At Amherst he was a Psi Upsilon, Sigma 
Psi, and Phi Beta Kappa. He spent the year after graduation as 
general secretary of the Armory Hill Y. M. C. A., of Springfield, 
Massachusetts; the following year at Hartford Theological Sem- 
inary, graduating in May, 1887. CHis pastoral work began in the 
Eastern Avenue and White Street chapels of Hope Congregational 
Church, Springfield. In 1888 the former was organized as a church 
and he was its pastor until 1891, when he went to Brooklyn and 
was for nine years assistant to Dr. Richard S. Storrs, of the Church 
of the Pilgrims, having charge of Pilgrim Chapel. In 1900 he went 
to Beverly, Masachusetts, as pastor of Dane Street Congregational 
Church (650 members), where he now is. CHe was married Sep- 
tember 2, 1 89 1, to Sophia Weston Janes, of Springfield, and has 
had three children: Theodore Linn, born July 27, 1892, died July 
30, 1892; Ruth, bom May 4, 1897, and Paul, November — , 1898. 
CHe writes : "December 22, 1906, I lost my wife after fifteen years 
of happy married life. With the help of my mother and friends 
I have been able to keep my home, and my two children are doing 
finely." By has published "Outdoor Preaching," "A Chart of 
Jewish National History," and "Turkey and Turkish Problems." 
He is a frequent contributor to the religious press. C Address: 9 
Dane street, Beverly, Masachusetts. 



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DWARD AUGUSTUS CAHOON was born August 20, 
^ 1862, at Lyndon, Vermont, and fitted for college at Lyndon 
Academy. He was one of '83's heavy athletes, a member 
of the college football team, a boxer, and winner of various field 
day prizes. C After graduation he worked in Minneapolis for a 
year in a real estate office. This was not strenuous enough for his 
active temperament, and in 1884 he went to New Mexico to take 
up the life of a cow puncher. After three years on the ranges he 
settled in Albuquerque, entering the employ of the Albuquerque 
National Bank. In 1890 he went to Roswell and organized the 
Bank of Roswell, becoming its cashier. Roswell was then 200 miles 
from the nearest railroad. Mail was received three times a week. 
In 1899 the bank was nationalized. Cahoon is still its cashier. He 
is chairman of the board of regents of the New Mexico Military 
Institute, and, as one of the Roswell papers puts it, "a prized 
counselor and stockholder in practically every organization that is 
worth while in the business and social life of the Pecos Valley." 
He has been offered the secretaryship of the territory, and has had 
several opportunities to run for Congress, but does not thirst for 
public life. CHe was married April 26, 1894, to Mabel Howell, 
and has three daughters: Katharine, born January 23, 1895; 
Louise, born September 7, 1897; Mabel, born August 10, 1902. Mrs. 
Cahoon died October 24, 1902. He has since married, August 15, 
1908, Laura Hedgcoxe, of Roswell. CAddress: Roswell, New 
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nOHN ANDREW CALLAHAN was bom May 19, i860, 
fitted for college at the Barre, (Massachusetts) High School 
^and entered Amherst in '79. The year after graduating he 
taught in Barre, his home town. In September of the next year, 
1884, he became principal of a grammar school in Holyoke, Massa- 
chusetts, and for twenty-four years has held that position. The 
"Holyoke Transcript" of March 27, 1908, in urging Callahan's candi- 
dacy for a higher position, said editorially: "Mr. Callahan has left 
the impress of a high-minded personality upon a generation of 
people. His influence through the pupils who have been developed 
under him is a power in Holyoke today." CIn 1901 he was presi- 
dent of the Hampden County Teachers' Association, and at the 
present time is a vice-president of the Connecticut Valley Historical 
Society, and of the Three County Agricultural Society. He received 
from Amherst in 1886 the degree of A. M., in course. He has spent 
one season in Europe, seven summers at Clark University Summer 
School, and seven summers at the Martha's Vineyard Summer 
School. He has some twenty or more lectures on subjects relating 
to travel, literature, science, and philosophy. Several years ago he 
invented and copyrighted a chart on "Longitude and Time." He 
writes: "I have enjoyed life greatly and never fail to give due 
credit to the 'college on the hill' for whatever little measure of 
success I may have had." Callahan is unmarried. C Address: 
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SRAEL FOLSOM CHESLEY, or "Ches," was born 
October 6, i860, at Lee, New Hampshire. He fitted at the 
Salisbury (Masachusetts) high school and at Phillips Exeter. 
He was a Delta Kappa Epsilon. CUpon graduating from Amherst 
he became office manager for S. N. & C. Russell, woolen manufac- 
turers, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and on October 31st of the same 
year was married to Bertha Madalene, daughter of the senior 
member of the firm. President Seelye officiated at the wedding. 
Solomon Russell, the "class boy," came March 29, 
1885. The same year the S. N. & C. Russell 
Manufacturing Company was incorporated, with 
Chesley as treasurer and manager. Three more 
Chesleys were born in Pittsfield: Israel Fol- 
som, Jr., December 28, 1886, Franklin Russell, 
December i, 1889, and Malcolm, May 20, 1891. 
Israel Folsom, Jr., died May 10, 1891. CIn 1895 
Chesley went to Boston and engaged in the wool 
business. Seven years later he moved to Denver, 
Colorado, where Mrs. Chesley died, October 20, 
1902. He then returned to Amesbury, Massa- 
chusetts, and a year later entered the Boston office of D. Appleton 
& Company. From 1904 to 1908 he was buyer for the McMillan 
Fur and Wool Company, of Minneapolis, traveling in the North- 
west. He then went into real estate in Minneapolis, and has recently 
returned east. Russell, "the boy," did not go to college, but is 
studying medicine in Boston. C Address: Amesbury, Massa- 
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ALTER CLAYTON CLAPP, known as "Pol," was born 
at Jericho, Vermont, January 20, 1861, entered college from 
New York City, was an Alpha Delt, P. Q., Sigma Psi, Phi 
Beta Kappa, Kellogg and Hyde speaker. CHe writes: "I tested 
a family tradition that I was to be a doctor, by matriculation at the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons in '83, but before the year was 
out discovered the tradition to be without basis. I taught one year, 
determined to prepare for Holy Orders in the Episcopal Church; 
entered the General Theological Seminary, was ordained by Bishop 
Potter, and went to Baltimore, where I spent five happy years in 
charge of the colored work of Mount Calvary Parish. From there 
I was called to the professorship of Exegesis at Nashotah Theo- 
logical Seminary, Wisconsin. Was there two years. Doubts arose 
as to my ecclesiastical position, and thinking to get peace, I entered 
the Roman Church and became a novice in the Paulist Order. The 
hoped-for peace was not found. I could not deny the validity of 
my orders; honesty compelled me to retrace my steps. From '95 
to '98 I was curate at St. Clement's, Philadelphia, then for three 
years rector of St. John's, Toledo. In 1899 I was married to Char- 
lotte Kern, and in 1901 went as a missionary to the Philippines. 
My work is among the Bontoc Igorots of northern Luzon, in whose 
language I have made the first considerable vocabulary, and some 
translations, including St. Mark's Gospel. My wife died soon after 
our arrival. C Address: Bontoc, Philippine Islands. 



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^^^RVING EDWARD COMINS was born on the 28th day of 
Bjlt^ July, i860, in the modest village of Charlton, Massachusetts, 
^^) not more than a dozen miles from Worcester. At an early 
age he became an inhabitant of Worcester, where he attended the 
public schools and fitted for college at the Worcester high school 
with Sprout and Jim Allen, entering Amherst as a freshman in 
the autumn of 1879. In college he was a member of Chi Phi and a 
Phi Beta Kappa. CT After graduation in '83 he went at once into the 
woolen business at Rochdale, Massachusetts, a suburb of Worces- 
ter, as junior partner in the firm of Comins & Company. He has 
remained in this firm and work ever since. The firm has been 
incorporated, and he is now its president. He is also treasurer of 
the J. D. Clark Company, woolen manufacturers. C Comins has 
been prominent in the municipal politics of Worcester. He was for 
four years a member of the city council and served for one year 
as president of that body. For nine years he has been a director 
of the Worcester Board of Trade and for two years its president. 
He was also a member of the Citizens' Commission for abolishing 
grade railway crossings. COn June 8, 1887, he was married to 
Etta Rosella Leonard, of Worcester. They have had two sons; 
the elder, Edward Irving, was bom March 12, 1889; the younger, 
Leonard Clark, was born July 18, 1895, and died January 12, 1896. 
C Comins* home address is 12 Hawthorne street, Worcester, 
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^^gHOMAS LAMB COMSTOCK, or "Tom" Comstock, as he 
WR^H ^^^ generally known in college, entered this life at Boston, 
[>^ga^l Masachusetts, on the i8th of September, 1861. His family 
took him to Greenfield, Massachusetts, at an early age, and he there 
fitted for college, entering Amherst as a freshman in 1879. In col- 
lege he was a member of Psi Upsilon and "E. Pi D.," was the cham- 
pion tennis player of the class and president of the college tennis 
association, a prize short-distance runner, vice "gym" captain, a 
banjoist, and a member of the "Olio" Board. COf his later history 
he writes: "From the time of my graduation in June, 1883, until 
January, 1904, I was actively engaged in the manufacture of lumber 
and pulp, our mills being situated at Turners Falls, Massachusetts, 
on the Connecticut river. During that time I acted as treasurer 
of the lumber company for about twenty years and president of 
the pulp company for eight years. We lost our lumber mill by fire, 
and having sold our timber lands and plant, I associated myself 
in 1904 with Wells Brothers Company, of Greenfield, Massachu- 
setts, and am now engaged in the manufacture of taps and dies. 
I am at present vice-president of the Greenfield Club, director of 
the Country Club, and assessor of the Unitarian Church. CIn 
1 89 1 I married Eliza P. G. Ripley, of Greenfield, who died in June, 
1897. On August 28, 1906, I married my second wife, Harriet 
Bigelow Allen, of Greenfield, and we are now living at our home 
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RANK ETHRIDGE COTTON was born on the 27th of 
September, 1861, at Hamilton, Ohio. He fitted for college 
at the Stoneham (Massachusetts) high school, entered 
Amherst as a freshman in the autumn of 1879 and graduated four 
years later. During his college course he was distinguished as the 
chief musician in charge of the college chimes. CThe following 
is his account of his movements since graduation: "My life since 
leaving Amherst, though somewhat varied, has been modest, as 
befits a modest man. A year's teaching in northern Illinois ; a year 
with Fred Kendall and some other good fellows in Eau Claire, 
Wisconsin, learning the lumber business and some other things; 
seven years in St. Louis; then back to New England, in Woburn, 
Massachusetts, till 1904, and since then in Maiden. Such have been 
my wanderings. Bookkeeping and ofBce methods and management 
have been my work. I was office manager for the R. H. White 
Company, of Boston, for two years, and am now in a similar position 
with Braman, Dow & Company, of the same city. CI married in 
Stoneham, Massachusetts, November 12, 1889, Anna Cordelia Put- 
ney, and have two daughters: Edith Frances, born in St. Louis, 
October 12, 1890, and Rachel Ethridge, bom in Woburn, Massachu- 
setts, April 23, 1894. My chief hobby has been genealogical 
research, and I have been for many years a member of the New 
England Historic Genealogical Society. Official positions I have 
never sought or had, except on school boards, etc." C Address: 
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VERY FAYETTE CUSHMAN, more familiarly known as 
'Cushy," or "Cush," for short, was not only educated in 

Amherst, but was also born there. He first saw the light 
in that classic Massachusetts village on the 28th day of August, A. 
D., i860. After passing through the vicissitudes of childhood and 
completing the public school curriculum, he graduated from the 
Amherst high school in 1878 and entered college as a freshman with 
the class of '82. At the end of the first year, however, he dropped 
out, and when he reentered it was with '83, sophomore year. He was 
a member of Chi Phi and was Grove Orator, senior year. C After 
graduation he went to Boston and entered Boston University Law 
School, where he remained two years, receiving his degree of LL. B. 
in June, 1885. The following month he was admitted to the Suffolk 
County bar, and in September of the same year went to New York 
to begin the practice of his profession. He entered the law office 
of Goodrich, Deady and Goodrich, at 59 Wall street, and remained 
there eighteen years. In the spring of 1903 he formed a partnership 
with Stephen P. Cushman, having offices in the Orient building at 
79 Wall street, only a stone's throw from his former quarters. His 
specialty is admiralty law. CCush was married June 14, 1888, to 
Mary Adelaide Hedden, of East Orange, New Jersey, and has had 
two children: Dorothy, born January 18, 1890, died January 19, 
1890; Caroline, bom January 17, 1893. CT Address: Office, 79 Wall 
street, New York City; Home, 124 Walnut street. East Orange, 
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IHRISTAKIS APOSTOLOS DEREBEY was born in 
Broussa, Turkey, of Greek parentage, February ii, 1857. 
He writes: "I studied in the public schools of Broussa, 
spent one year at Roberts College, Constantinople, returned to 
Broussa and taught a year in the missionary school of the American 
Board. In 1876 I went to Athens, entered the Gymnasion of 
Metropolis and took one year in the university. The following 
September (1880) I left for America, and in the spring of 1881 
entered the class of '83 at Amherst as a sophomore. C After gradu- 
ating I took a theological course at Hartford and Andover and 
graduated from the latter in 1886. From 1886 to 1890 I did pastoral 
work in Cornish, Portland, and Brooksville, Maine. From 1890 to 
1893 I was pastor of the First Congregational Church, Clintonville, 
Wisconsin. In visiting Chicago in 1893 I found there thousands 
of Greeks without either religious or educational privileges, 
neglected and dirty. There are now 15,000 in Chicago. So I 
decided to come to Chicago and do what I could for them. From 
1893 to 1905 I engaged in this work, at the same time studying 
medicine at Northwestern Medical College, from which I graduated 
in 1897. I ^"^ ^ot now doing active religious work, but am giving 
my time to the practice of medicine. CI was married October 3, 
1888, to Nellie Frances Pease, of Cornish, Maine, and have three 
children: Harold Pericles, born July 5, 1889; Frank Pease, Feb- 
ruary 19, 1892; Chester Howard, October 19, 1897. C Address: 
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LMON JESSE DYER was born at Cummington, Massa- 
chusetts, October 28, 1857. His elementary education was 
received in the public schools of his native village, after 
which he took a four years' course at the State Normal School at 
Westfield, Massachusetts, and taught two terms in Conway Acad- 
emy. Thus when he entered Amherst as a freshman he already had 
a record as a normal graduate and a pedagogue. In college he was 
a member of Torch and Crown and Phi Beta Kappa and sang on 
the glee club. C After graduating he spent three years at Hartford 
Seminary, taking his degree in '86. A month later he was installed 
pastor of the Congregational Church at Upton, Massachusetts, 
where he remained six years, resigning to become pastor of the Con- 
gregational Church of North Brookfield. He was at North Brook- 
field until 1896, then went to Ware, where he supplied the pulpit 
seven months for the East Congregational Church, and in 1897 
accepted a call to the Congregational Church of Sharon, Massachu- 
setts, where he is still settled. He has been for five years a member 
of the school committee of Sharon, is assistant registrar ot the 
General Association of Congregational Churches of Massachusetts, 
and a member of the finance committee of the Massachusetts Total 
Abstinence Society. CDyer was married May 25, 1886, to Lizzie 
Jane Lovell, of Cummington, and has one daughter, Ruth Elizabeth, 
born March 10, 1889, who is now a senior at Mt. Holyoke. 
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Rj^^ENRY FAIRBANK, sometimes called "Nugger," was born 
njMmrt at Vadala, India, of missionary parents, June 30, 1862. He 
l/Jp^?^ fitted at Phillips Andover. In college he was a Psi Upsilon, 
Phi Beta Kappa, a monitor and commencement speaker, took the 
Walker scholarship and numerous other prizes, and graduated at 
the head of the class. CHe went through Yale Divinity School, 
and in 1886 returned to India. There he married Ruby Elizabeth 
Harding and settled in Vadala, his birthplace, about 250 miles east 
of Bombay, where he superintended some forty native Christian 
workers. In 1899 he went to Ahmednagar and became connected 
with a large high and industrial school. He has visited America a 
number of times since he began his work in India and his children 
have been in this country, studying, most of the time since 1898, 
Mrs. Fairbank being with them for four years at Colorado Springs 
and the boys subsequently making their home with Byington at 
Beverly, Massachusetts. In 1906 Mrs. Fairbank died. CFairbank's 
work has been partly educational and partly administrative. He 
had with him at the reunion some exquisite hand work done by his 
Indian students. His three children are: Samuel Ballantine, born 
December 7, 1887 (Amherst '09), the efficient local factotum of our 
late reunion; Alan Melvin, born September 27, 1889 (Amherst '11) ; 
Ruth Elizabeth, born February 29, 1892, attending school at Spring- 
field, Massachusetts. Fairbank was married November 17, 1908, to 
Mary Etta Moulton, of the Marathi mission. C Address: Ahmed- 
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ALTER TAYLOR FIELD, called "Walt" or "The Old 
Man," was born in Galesburg, Illinois, February 21, 1861. 
At a tender age he went to Chicago with his parents and 
has since lived in that city. He fitted at Denmark Academy, Iowa, 
took his freshman and sophomore years at Dartmouth, and entered 
Amherst at the beginning of junior year. He was an Alpha Delta 
Phi, P. Q. and Sigma Psi, was an editor of "The Student," drew 
pictures for "The Olio," took a star part in senior dramatics and was 
Class Poet. C After graduating he was for three years in the 
editorial department of the old Chicago publishing house of S. C. 
Griggs and Company. In 1886 he became associate editor of "The 
Advance," and from 1887 to 1890 was with Harper and Brothers. 
He spent part of 1890 in France and Italy. Returning, he entered 
the employ of Ginn and Company, with whom he is still connected. 
He is a contributor to vcirious magazines, lectures on art and litera- 
ture, and has written the following books: "Rome," 2 volumes, 
Boston, 1904; "Fingerposts to Children's Reading," Chicago, 1906; 
"The Abbey Classics" — introductions to the volumes on Burns, 
Milton, Lowell and Longfellow, New York, 1907. He has been a 
trustee of Denmark Academy, trustee and treasurer of the Univer- 
sity Congregational Church of Chicago, and a director of the Apollo 
Musical Club of Chicago. C December 6, 1892, he married Sara 
Lounsberry Peck, of Chicago. They have three children, Walter 
Donald, born August 8, 1895; Ruth Alden, born July 14, 1898; John 
Stanley, born July 23, 1904. C Address: 2301-231 1 Prairie Avenue, 
Chicago. 

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^^^EORGE BYRON FOSTER, formerly called "Jim" Foster, 
f^^^f ^^^ born in North Andover, Massachusetts, December i, 
0^^^ 1858. He received his elementary education in the public 
schools and was prepared for college at Phillips Andover 
Academy, in the class with Byington, Fairbank, Hatch, Manning, 
and Warren. He entered Amherst in the autumn of 1879 at the 
beginning of our freshman year. In college he was a member of 
Delta Upsilon. CI After graduation in 1883 he secured a position 
with the publishing house of D. Lothrop & Company, of Boston, 
in the service of which he remained for one year. At the end of 
that time he received an offer from Pulsifer, Jordan & Pfaff which 
seemed more promising and which he accepted. He had been in 
the employ of the last named firm about two years when illness 
obliged him for a time to give up his work. Upon recovering he 
went into the banking business, taking a position in 1886 with the 
Massachusetts National Bank, of Boston. After four years of 
service in the bank, a good opening occurred in 1900 in the treas- 
urer's office of the Boston and Albany Railroad and he accepted it. 
He is still with that company. He writes : "I have been engaged in 
business, since graduation; most of the time in the banking and 
railroad business." C^oster was married November 5, 1896, to 
Margaret V., daughter of Lyman D. and Cordelia Loring Brooks, 
of Boston, and has had one child, a daughter, whom he lost, with 
his wife, about six years ago. CHis address is: 15 Vernon street, 
Brookline, Massachusetts. 



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^^^DWIN FOWLER was born March 12, 1861, in the village 
7^^^ of Hammond, New York. When he was still young his 
'^^^J family moved to Gouverneur, where he attended Gouverneur 



Seminary, entering Amherst at the beginning of our freshman year. 
He was a member of the Torch and Crown (now Beta Theta Pi), 
and was a Phi Beta Kappa. C After graduation it was his purpose 
to become a mechanical engineer. With this end in view he spent 
a year in private study, at Gouverneur, but in June, 1884, not find- 
ing such an opening as he wished, he went to Kansas and toward 
the end of August entered the service of the Central Loan and Land 
Company, of Emporia, as stenographer, becoming in less than four 
years a director and secretary of the company. In 1889 the busi- 
ness was moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and the name was 
changed to the Central Loan Debenture Company. It continued 
thus until 1896, when it went into liquidation and Fowler was its 
receiver. In 1902 he became president of the Investors' Agency 
Corporation. CHe was married September 8, 1886, to Jennie 
Brodie, of Gouverneur, New York, and has five children; Mar- 
garet, born July 28, 1888; Helen, born July 20, 1890; Katherine, 
born October 8, 1897; Edwin Brodie, born December 18, 1899, and 
Elizabeth Brodie, born November 18, 1901. His family has been 
in Brussels for more than a year, where the children are studying, 
and he describes himself as in a "lonesome and forlorn condition." 
C Address : 3002 DeGroff way, Kansas City, Missouri. 



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I^^NOCH WINFIELD FRENCH was born in Providence, 
]^^^ Rhode Island, January 14, 1862, and fitted at the Woburn 
^^^1 (Massachusetts) high school. He was prominent in col- 
lege as a short-distance runner. Of his later life he writes: "Was 
with United States Signal Service '83 to '88, stationed at Wash- 
ington, District of Columbia; Nashville, Tennessee, and Prescott, 
Arizona. Married Adalina M. Moore, of Prescott, September 15, 
'87. Three children: Olive Louise, George Marshall, and Reid A. 
Wife died February 14, '02. Married Louise J. French, of Boston, 
November 28, '04. In '88 was elected probate judge and county 
school superintendent of Yavapai County, Arizona. Served three 
terms. Admitted to the bar in '87 and to the Supreme Court in '88. 
Gave up practice in '93 on account of health. Was engaged with 
Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway in construction work, and 
later as general storekeeper, w^ith headquarters at Prescott. In 
'02 was with Grant Brothers, contractors, in construction work for 
the Santa Fe. In '04 became general manager for the Florence 
Commercial Company, with headquarters at Kelvin, and after- 
wards at Ray. Later was manager of the Hercules Mercantile 
Company at Ray. Am now with the Ray Consolidated Copper 
Mining Company." C French has been chairman of the trustees 
of the Arizona Territorial Normal School and trustee of the Town- 
site of Flagstaff. He also has filled important offices in the Knights 
of Pythias and I. O. O. F., and has taken an active part in Arizona 
politics. C Address: Ray, Arizona. 



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C^^gnONATHAN GREENLEAF was born March 14, 1861, in 
I^^TIh Brooklyn, New York. He attended the public schools of 
I^^Ej Brooklyn and fitted for college at the Brooklyn Collegiate 
and Polytechnic Institute — the same institution which gave us 
Pard, Frank Marsh, Goodwin, and Tom Cochran. His preparation 
was completed at the Amherst high school. C After graduating 
from college he spent three years at Union Theological Seminary, 
and graduated in the spring of 1886. In August of the same year 
he was called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church of 
Hobart, New York, where he was ordained by the Presbytery of 
Otsego and installed September 22nd. He remained at Hobart 
three years, then became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at 
Hawley, Pennsylvania, where he continued four years. In the 
summer of 1893 he entered upon the pastorate at Whitestone, New 
York, and three years later went to Princeton, New York, where 
he remained four and a half years. In the autumn of 1900 he 
received a call from the church at Sparta, New Jersey, and com- 
pleted six years of service there. From Sparta he went to Branch- 
ville. New Jersey, where he is now pastor. In 1886 he received 
from Amherst the degree of A. M., in course. In 1902 he was made 
permanent clerk of the Presbytery of Newton. COn July 6, 1887, 
he was married to Laurette May Button, of Milford, New Hamp- 
shire. Their children are: Jonathan Parsons, born May 2, 1888 
(Amherst *i2) ; Anna Elizabeth, born September 5, 1894, and 
Charles Scott, born November 5, 1897. C Address: Branchville, 
New Jersey. 

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ARTIN LUTHER GRIFFIN was born at Northampton, 
Massachusetts, May 21, 1859. During his boyhood his 
parents moved to Holyoke, where he prepared for college 
at the high school. CT After graduating from Amherst he returned 
to Holyoke, where he opened a laboratory and entered business as 
a professional chemist. In 1884 he was milk inspector and in 1885 
inspector of petroleum for the city of Holyoke. He was also, from 
'85 to '93, consulting chemist for the Hudson River Water Power 
and Paper Company, of Mechanicsville, New York. January i, 
1892, he moved to Albany, New York, and entered the service of 
what is now the Duncan Mills of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper 
Company, at Mechanicsville, as chemist in charge. He remained 
there sixteen years, until January, 1908, when he went to Spring- 
field, Massachusetts, and has since been associated with Dr. Herbert 
C. Emerson (Amherst '89) in the Emerson Laboratory. He is a 
member of the American Chemical Society, the Society of Chemical 
Industry of London, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 
American Electro-chemical Society, Franklin Institute, Chemists 
Club of New York, and has been a contributor at various times to 
scientific journals. He has published "The Evolution of the Sul- 
phite Digester," and in 1901 won a prize offered by the Scottish 
Paper Makers' Association. CHe was married March 28, 1894, to 
Ada Juliette Riggs, of Albany, New York, and has two children: 
Archer Estabrook, born December 4, 1899, and Carol Riggs, born 
May 30, 1902. Address: 177 State street, Springfield, Massa- 
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i^^^jDWARD ALLEN GUERNSEY was born on New Year's 
;]^^s day, 1861, at East Bridge water, Pennsylvania, and fitted 
i^'^ for college at the Amherst high school. C After graduating, 



le became, in September, 1883, instructor in Latin and English at 
a boy's fitting school at Colora, Maryland, and a year later went to 
River Falls, Wisconsin, as assistant high school principal. The 
following year, 1885-6, was spent at Amherst doing post-graduate 
work in Latin and Greek. In the fall of 1886 he went to New 
Orleans and took a position as instructor in Straight University, 
remaining there until the following June. He then determined to 
give up teaching and went to Boston to look for a business opening. 
During the summer of 1887 he worked in the office of the Bridge 
Teachers' Agency, of Boston, and in the fall of the same year 
went to Minneapolis to open and manage an office of the company 
in that city. He continued this work in Minneapolis and St. Paul 
for three years, and then went into the music business, spending 
six years in the service of the wholesale music house of W. J. Dyer 
& Brother, of St. Paul and Minneapolis. He had charge of the 
wholesale piano and organ department. In April, 1896, an offer 
came to him from the Ivers & Pond Piano Company, of Boston. 
He accepted it, moved to Boston, and is still connected with the 
house, as advertising manager. CHe was married November 10, 
1888, to Helen C. Shipman, of Philadelphia. They have no chilr 
dren. CI Address: Office, 114 Boylston street; Home, 4 Allston 
Heights, Boston, Massachusetts. 



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ALTER LEWIS HALLET, the son of Captain Charles 
and Charlotte E. Hallet, was born at the family home in 
Mansfield, Bristol County, Massachusetts, on the first day 
of January in the year of our Lord i860. During his boyhood he 
attended the public schools of his home town and after completing 
the work in the grades went to Taunton, Massachusetts, where he 
prepared for college at Bristol Academy. Graduating from the 
academy he went to Amherst in September, 1879, and joined the 
class of '83 at the beginning of the college course. During the next 
four years he scored about the average number of rushes and grad- 
uated with the rest of the gang on that memorable twenty-seventh 
of June, 1883. CIn the autumn following his graduation he went 
to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and entered Harvard Medical School, 
where he took the regular three years' course and graduated with 
the degree of M. D. in the spring of 1886. He then returned to his 
old home at Mansfield, opened an office and began the practice of 
his profession. Five years later, on the 24th of September, 1891, 
he was married to Kate S. Williams, daughter of John B. and Abby 
S. Williams, of Easton, Massachusetts. For seven years he lived 
and practiced at Mansfield, but in 1893, looking for a wider field 
of usefulness, he removed to Brockton, Massachusetts. There, on 
the 2nd of August, 1895, he lost his wife. He is still living in 
Brockton, where he has an excellent practice. He has no children. 
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AMUELWORTHINGTON HALLETT was bom Novem- 
ber 20, 1858, at Hyannis, Massachusetts, and fitted at the 
Barnstable (Massachusetts) high school. CAfter gradu- 
ating from Amherst he became principal of a grammar school at 
Ware, Massachusetts, where he remained until February, '86. He 
then determined to take up the study of medicine, and entered the 
medical department of the University of Vermont, completing one 
academic year, but the next summer the principalship of the high 
school at Ware having been offered him, he returned, remaining 
five years longer. Then he went to Barnstable as superintendent 
of schools for five years, and to New Bedford for a year as principal 
of a business college. But his friends in Ware sent him another 
urgent call, and he returned again to become superintendent of 
schools — ^his third period at Ware, each engagement being for a 
higher position. During this time he took work in pedagogy — one 
year at Clark University, in the Saturday courses, and three sum- 
mers at the Hyannis State Normal School, graduating from the 
latter institution. In 1902 he resigned finally at Ware, spent a year 
at Harvard University doing graduate work, and received the 
Master's degree in the department of education. For the next two 
years he taught in a private school in Boston and tutored at Har- 
vard. In 1905 he became the head of Nichols Academy, Dudley, 
Massachusetts, where he is still engaged. CHallett married, in 
1898, Bertha Lovell, of Osterville, Massachusetts. Degrees : A. M., 
in course, Amherst, 1887; A.M., Harvard, 1903. CPermanent 
address: Hyannis, Massachusetts. 

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[j^^HARLES WOODMAN HAMILTON, the genial "Charlie" 
Kly^^ of college days, was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Sep- 
[■^^^ tember 23, i860. He fitted for college at the Fond du Lac 
high school and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1879. Two years 
later he and Field together came from Dartmouth to Amherst. In 
college Hamilton was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, P. Q. and 
Sigma Psi. He had affiliations at both Smith and Mt. Holyoke. 
CAfter graduation he went to work for the Milwaukee Harvester 
Company. In 1892 he was elected secretary and treasurer of the com- 
pany and held that position until 1898, when he sold out and organ- 
ized the Milwaukee Lace Paper Company, which he now owns exclu- 
sively. He built this business, as he expresses it, "from the ground 
up," having his machines made to order, and special dies manu- 
factured for the cutting of the paper. About two years ago, feeling 
that the Germans were making better lace paper than could be 
manufactured in this country, he went to Germany, worked for 
two months in one of the largest German lace paper factories and 
brought home with him new machinery and new methods. He 
practically controls the lace paper business in this country. 
C Charlie was married September 6, 1888, to Elizabeth Frazier 
Noyes, of Milwaukee. He has two sons: Raymond Noyes, born 
September i, 1889, and Kenneth Charles, born April 17, 1892. The 
elder is six feet one, weighs 178 pounds and is attending a business 
college in Milwaukee. C Address: Office, 285-289 South Water 
street; home, 291 Prospect avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 



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REDERICK WILLIAM HAMLIN entered this world at 
Dover, New Hampshire, September 21, 1862. At the age of ten 
he moved with his parents to Willimantic, Connecticut, where 
he went through the grammar school and the Natchaug high school. 
In 1878 his parents moved to Amherst and he completed his prepa- 
ration at the Amherst high school. During his college course he 
was a familiar figure on the baseball diamond, playing three years 
with the college team. He was also a commencement speaker, a 
Phi Beta Kappa, and winner of the Phi Beta Kappa philosophical 
prize. C After graduation he taught for two years — the first year 
in a boarding school at Nyack-on-the-Hudson, New York, and the 
second year at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts. 
In October of 1885 he went to New York and began the study of 
medicine at the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Hos- 
pital. Graduating at the head of his class in 1888, he at once began 
the practice of his profession in New York City. In 1890 he was 
appointed lecturer on obstetrics in the New York Homeopathic 
Medical College and Hospital; in 1900 he was made associate pro- 
fessor and in 1902 professor of obstetrics. He is a member of 
county, state, and national medical societies, and has written a book 
entitled "Practical Obstetrics." C Hamlin was married November 
g, 1903, to Gertrude Sherman, youngest daughter of Elijah Tl 
Sherman, of New York City. He has no children. C Address: 
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AVID PHILLIPS HATCH was born at Marshfield, Mas- 
sachusetts, October i6, 1856, and fitted for college at Phil- 
lips Andover Academy. At Amherst he was a Chi Phi, P. 
Q. and Sigma Psi. On another page will be found his picture as a 
member of that company of players which startled Amherst during 
our senior year. COf his later life he writes: "After graduating 
from Hartford Theological Seminary in 1886 I accepted a call to 
the Congregational Church in Rockland, Maine, where I remained 
over five years. Then I took a charge in Paterson, New Jersey, 
where I spent four years. In 1895 I went abroad, and when I 
returned was elected secretary of the Maine Home Missionary 
Society, which office I held four years, traveling twenty-five thou- 
sand miles over the Pine Tree state and learning much of the 
rural church. But my inclination drew me to the pastorate, and 
in 1899 I went to the South Church in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 
remaining there until a few months befbre coming to Franklin, 
New Hampshire, where I have now been for five and a half years." 
C David is corresponding secretary of the General Association of 
Congregational Churches of New Hampshire and a trustee of the 
New Hampshire Home Missionary Society. He occasionally writes 
for the religious press. CIn 1886 he married Patton's sister, Caro- 
line. She died in 1893. Two years later he married Cora Euretta 
Johnson, of Williamstown, Massachusetts. They have had two 
children: Helen Winslow, born December 11, 1895, ^i^d December 
13, 1897; David Phillips, Jr., born February 21, 1899. CAddress: 
Franklin, New Hampshire. 

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OSTER STRONG HAVEN, the son of Franklin and Eliza 
Haven, was born on the 21st day of July, 1858, in the village 
of Vergennes, Vermont, among the Green mountains, and 
only a few miles from the shores of Lake Champlain. His early 
years were spent in his native town, fishing, trading jack-knives, 
and attending school after the juvenile manner. He prepared for 
college at the Vergennes high school, and in the autumn of 1879 
went to Amherst, where he entered the class of '83, forming with 
Hooker a coalition, offensive and defensive, which lasted many 
years. In college he became a member of Delta Upsilon. Having 
determined to study medicine, he went to New York City the 
autumn after graduating in 1883, and matriculated at the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons. There he spent three years, maintaining 
meanwhile his partnership with Hooker, who was then in the law 
school. He graduated in the spring of 1886 with the degree of 
M. D. ; the next year was engaged in hospital and dispensary work, 
and has since then been associated at various times with several of 
the New York City hospitals, though his attention has been given 
for the most part to his private practice. While this practice has 
been of a general nature, Haven is known as a specialist in the dis- 
eases of children. During the past five years he has also taken an 
active interest in the great fight against tuberculosis and has estab- 
lished in the Adirondacks a hospital for the care of tubercular 
patients. He is unmarried. C Address: 115 West Sixty-fourth 
street. New York City. 



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[ILLIE PERKINS HOLCOMBE was born in Sunderland, 
I Vermont, August 19, 1862, and prepared for Amherst at 
3^^ the Westfield (Massachusetts) high school. In college he 
was an editor of "The Student." CThe winter following his grad- 
uation he began the study of law with Leonard and Welles, of 
Springfield, Massachusetts. The next autumn he entered Boston 
University Law School and graduated in June, 1886, winning a prize 
for the best legal essay. The same summer he was admitted to 
the bar. C He writes: "Your request for biographical data embar- 
rasses me. But unhistoric lives are not necessarily joyless ones 
and I would not have you believe that during all these years I have 
been idle or unhappy. As for my earlier dreams, many of them 
have vanished, and long since I exchanged several fine castles in 
Spain for a humble home here in the suburbs. Across my domestic 
life no cloud has yet passed, and whatever disappointment *she' may 
have found in it has been cleverly concealed. Personally I have 
grown much stouter than when you last saw me some twenty-five 
years ago and am conscious that I know far less than I did then. 
My hat now is rarely tight and my waistband always is. At the 
same time I know some things better, and humbly trust that I am 
progressing, though slowly, in the right direction." C October 10, 
1895, Holcombe married Harriet L. Hilliard, of Boston. They 
have three children: Louise Brooks, born September 9, 1896; 
Harriet Dudley, born November 19, 1899; Alice Perkins, born 
June 10, 1901. C Address: 27 State street, Boston. 



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RED ROGERS HOLT was born in the village of Hunting- 
ton, Massachusetts, December ii, 1855, and fitted for col- 
lege at Brimfield, Massachusetts. At Amherst he proved a 
good student and was a Phi Beta Kappa. C After graduation he 
entered Rochester Theological Seminary, where he spent three 
years, taking his theological degree in the spring of 1886. While 
still in the seminary he acted as assistant pastor of the Park Avoiue 
Baptist Church of Rochester. He then became pastor of the 
Baptist Church at Yates, Orleans County, New York, and, August 
5, 1886, was married to Fannie Elizabeth Heath, of Rochester. For 
a time all went well in his work, but about three years after assum- 
ing the charge at Yates a trouble developed which resulted in the 
loss of his voice. He was obliged to give up his pastorate and take 
two years of medical treatment, which was only partially successful. 
In the meantime he was engaged in Y. M. C. A. work in Wellsville, 
New York (1890 to 1893). By that time it had become evident 
that his voice would not allow him to follow a profession which 
required public speaking. He therefore reluctantly abandoned the 
ministry, settled in Rochester and entered the dry goods house of 
the Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Company, of that city, with which he is 
still connected. He has been for many years a deacon in the Park 
Avenue Baptist Church of Rochester. The degree of A. M., in 
course, was given to him by Amherst in 1888. He has no children. 
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EORGE ELLSWORTH HOOKER was born April 25, 
1 86 1, at Peacham, Vermont, and fitted at the Barre (Ver- 
mont) Academy. He was a Delta U, Phi Beta Kappa, soph- 
omore Kellogg speaker. Social Union prize winner, and Ivy Orator. 
After graduating he went through Columbia Law School, was 
admitted to the bar in '85, practiced in New York two years, spent 
a year at Union Theological Seminary, and two years at Yale 
Divinity, graduating from the latter in '90. The next three years 
he was in eastern Washington under the Home Missionary Society, 
a member of the "Yale Band." He then spent a year abroad, and 
settled in Chicago, becoming a resident of Hull House, secretary 
in 1898 of the Special Street Railway Committee of the city council 
and author of its three hundred page report, editorial writer for 
four years on the "Chicago Tribune," and civic secretary of the 
City Club since 1903. He has written several magazine articles 
and pamphlets on municipal topics, and is active in the movement 
for municipalization of Chicago street railways. He says: "The 
question that most concerns me now is how this overgrown, dis- 
ordered, throbbing railroad and real estate town can be made a 
good home and workshop for two millions plus, with room for the 
youngster to play and grow ruddy, room for the dinner pail gang to 
sit down in the street cars after they have paid their fares, room for 
the daughter to receive her admirer without going to the cheap 
dance hall, room for the father to read his newspaper or attend 
his union without patronizing the bar." Hooker is unmarried. 
C Address: Hull House, Chicago. 

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lEZEKIAH SEYMOUR HOUGHTON was born at Pier- 
mont, New York, April 7, 1862. He took his preparatory 
course in his native village at Mr. Decker's School. In 
college he was a member of Chi Psi. Of his life after graduating 
he says: "Following my graduation I entered immediately the 
Bellevue Hospital Medical College under Professor Frederic S. 
Dennis, and during the ensuing three years put into the work of 
the various terms an amount of strenuous effort which exceeded 
all I had ever previously attempted. The result was an excellent 
position in the honors at graduation, and the securing of one of the 
four coveted positions on the staff of Bellevue Hospital. During 
the ensuing eighteen months of service in the third surgical divi- 
sion of Bellevue, I became engaged to Miss Sarah C. Preston, of 
New York City, and the wedding, which was to have taken place 
in October, following the close of my term as house surgeon, was 
postponed until January 5, 1888, on account of a vicious attack of 
typhoid fever, which not only cut off two months of my service, 
but nearly terminated my career. A year abroad, and I settled 
down to practice, purchasing the home in New York where I have 
resided ever since, enjoying an excellent practice and becoming 
identified with a number of medical organizations, particularly the 
New York Medical Society, of which for two years I have been the 
first vice-president. Our children are Florence Preston, born June 
28, 1889; Helene Seymour, born June 8, 1891, and Henry Seymour, 
January 3, 1896." C Address: 301 West Eighty-eighth street, 
New York. 

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ILVA: LINCOLN HYDE, the son of Charles and Julia 
(Lincoln) Hyde, was ushered into the world on the first 
day of April, i860, at Winchendon, Massachusetts, a town 
which was also the birthplace of Marcus Mason about a year and 
a half later. During Hyde's childhood his parents moved to South- 
bridge, Massachusetts, where he took his preparatory course for 
college at the Southbridge high school. In the fall of 1879 he went 
to Amherst and entered the class of '83 as a freshman. Senior year 
he was a Phi Beta Kappa. He had scarcely more than graduated 
when he suffered a serious attack of typhoid fever, which prevented 
him from undertaking any work during the summer and fall. When 
he had recovered sufficiently he went into his father's lumber yard 
at Southbridge, and a year later, in December, 1884, he was made a 
partner in the business. In 1892 he left this occupation, studied 
law in Southbridge for a time, and put his legal knowledge into 
practical use by opening an office for probate business and the 
management of estates. In this he is still engaged. CHe was 
married May 12, 1885, to Lulu L. Whitford, daughter of Daniel 
and Elizabeth (Hill) Whitford, of Southbridge, Massachusetts. A 
daughter, Elizabeth Lincoln, was bom to them on May 17, 1886. 
Mrs. Hyde died May 19, 1895. Hyde married again August 11, 
1897, his second wife being Sadie S. Cairns, daughter of Stewart 
and Sarah Cairns, of Southbridge. A second daughter, Phyllis 
Evangeline, was born August 21, 1898. C Address: Southbridge, 
Masachusetts. 



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IREDERICK KENDALL was born at Windsor, Vermont, 
November 29, 1855. He fitted for college at the Waltham 
(Massachusetts) high school and at Denison University, 
Granville, Ohio. At Amherst he sang on the college glee club. 
CTHis record since graduation is best told by himself: "Thirteen 
years in the lumber business, in Wisconsin, Kansas, and Montana; 
seven years as bookkeeper for a paper mill in Wisconsin; some- 
thing over a year on the Pacific coast, and nearly four years as a 
clothier and haberdasher, first in Coffeyville, Kansas, and now in 
this growing city of the plains, Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, is 
the schedule of my last twenty-five years. I was married in 1890 
and I am today 'the husband of one wife' and the father of one 
daughter — ^who is a leader in her class in the high school and an 
accomplished pianist. The Kendall trio are all members of the 
Baptist Church and we all take great pleasure in the service of the 
Giver of every good and perfect gift. I have written no books, nor 
have I been known to the public through either pulpit, press, or 
platform. He who would judge of my life since graduation must 
see in my happy home, in my choice friendships, and in my various 
business connections during these years a fair exponent of the 
attainments of the quarter century." d Kendall's wife was Asenath 
Candy, of St. Louis, Missouri. His daughter, Rachel Hubbard, was 
born January 15, 1892. C Address: 414 Polk street, Amarillo, 
Texas. (Saylor & Kendall.) 



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gOSEPH RAMSDELL KINGMAN, called "Joe" in college, 
was born in Chicago on the 15th of April, i860. At an 
early age he was taken to Minneapolis, that he might be 
surrounded by better influences. Here he prepared for college at 
the high school, and did some work at the University of Minnesota, 
going to Amherst in the fall of 1879. He was a Chi Phi, Sigma 
Psi and P. Q., an editor of "The Student," Senior class historian, 
and an "actress" in senior dramatics. After graduation he returned 
to Minneapolis and began the study of law in the office of Woods 
and Hahn. Joe's well-known modesty is exemplified in his reply to 
the request for a biography. He says: "Admitted to Minnesota 
bar April, 1885. Practiced law ever since." It is known, however, 
that in July, 1885, he was taken into the firm with which he had 
studied, and which has been successively Woods, Hahn and King- 
man ; Woods and Kingman ; Woods, Kingman and Wallace ; and 
Kingman, Crosby and Wallace. This evolution indicates his steady 
rise, for the firm is one of the most important legal partnerships in 
Minneapolis. Joe is a leading spirit in movements for municipal 
reform, a trustee of the Congregational Church and a substantial 
citizen of the best type. CHe married, October 21, 1891, Mabel S. 
Selden of Minneapolis, and has had four children: Elizabeth 
Ramsdell, born September 24, 1892, died July 21, 1900; Henry 
Selden, born December 25, 1893; Joseph Ramsdell, Jr., born June 
18, 1900; Eleanor, born July 31, 1905. C Address: Security 
Building, Minneapolis. 

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jRANK HENRY KNIGHT was born February 28, 1859, at 
Hebron, Connecticut, and fitted at Williston Seminary. He 
in^J was an excellent scholar, winning one of the Greek prizes 



freshman year, dividing with Rounds the sophomore Latin prize 
and taking the Thompson Latin prize junior year. He was a 
Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa and was appointed one 
of the monitors senior year, — but hard study undermined his health 
and at the senior holidays he suffered a nervous breakdown which 
obliged him to give up the thought of graduating with the class. 
In January, 1884, he had so far recovered as to be able to attend 
General Walker's lectures on political economy at the Institute of 
Technology in Boston, completing the series in June. The follow- 
ing winter and spring he attended lectures on history and political 
science at Cornell, and in the autumn of '85 entered the senior 
class at Yale, where he remained throughout the college year but 
did not graduate. From April, 1887, to September, 1888, he studied 
law with Hyde, Gross and Hyde at Hartford, Connecticut, and 
spent the next year at the Columbia Law School. He was then 
connected successively with the law firms of Sackett and Bennett, 
Coudert Brothers, Logan, Clark and Demond, and Hoadley, Lau- 
terbach and Johnson, in New York City. In 1889 Amherst gave 
him the degree of A. B. In 1897 he returned to Hartford. His 
health has again failed and he has been obliged to give up all 
business. C Address: Care of his brother. Dr. Edward H. Knight, 
71 Tremont street, Hartford, Connecticut. 



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ILBERT BLANCHARD LEW was born at Gardner, 
Massachusetts, on the 6th day of May, 1861. He went 
through the public schools and prepared for college at the 
Gardner High School, joining the ranks of '83 at the beginning of 
the course. CUpon graduating in 1883 he went west and for a 
time followed the precarious life of a book agent, obtaining, as he 
expressed it in a letter written at the time, "many honors, though 
few financial ones." At Battle Creek, Michigan, he became inter- 
ested in veterinary science and studied with Dr. D. Magner, a past- 
master in that art. Here he completed a regular course and "grad- 
uated as a full-fledged veterinary with all the necessary creden- 
tials." In the spring of 1887 he returned east, but not seeing at 
once a favorable opportunity to begin the practice of his profes- 
sion, he obtained a position as receiving clerk for the firm of J. N. 
Leonard and Company, silk thread manufacturers, of Northampton, 
Massachusetts. In this occupation he remained about a year and 
a half. On the first of November, 1889, he opened an office for the 
practice of veterinary medicine in Florence, Massachusetts, making 
his home meanwhile at Amherst. He is still engaged in this work 
in both Amherst and Florence. CIt will be remembered that Lew 
was married in Amherst during the summer vacation preceding his 
senior year. His wife was Hattie Burghardt, daughter of Ira 
Burghardt of Amherst, and the ceremony occurred August 19, 
1882. He has no children. CAddress: P. O. Box 194, Amherst, 
Massachusetts. 

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^^^HEODORE GRAHAM LEWIS, more popularly known in 
tlN^^ co^l^S^ ^s "Tede" Lewis, was born at Potosi, Wisconsin, 
t^Ssa^i June 12, 1861. He fitted at the Dubuque (Iowa) High 
School, and spent two years at Beloit College, entering Amherst 
at the beginning of Junior year. He wrote the Ivy Ode at Com- 
mencement. C After graduating he spent three years at the Har- 
vard Law School, was admitted to the New York bar in November, 
1887, and was connected successively with the firms of Carter, 
Hornblower and Byron, Mack and Lewis, Parrish and Pendleton, 
and Eaton and Lewis. In August, 1891, he had a serious attack 
of pneumonia, and his convalescence was so slow that he found it 
necessary to go to Colorado. He moved to Denver in September, 
1 89 1, and continued his profession in the office of Hon. Henry W. 
Hobson, also doing some editorial work for the "Denver Post." 
In February, 1897, finding his health established, he went to Chi- 
cago and secured a position with the Chicago Edison Company, 
but in June, 1900, returned to New York and resumed the practice 
of law. He was for a time editor of "The Electrical Age," has 
written on legal subjects for the daily press, and contributed 
popular scientific articles to various magazines. Among the cases 
in which he has been engaged recently are those of Gould vs. 
Gould, Jerome vs. "The Morning American" and The Borough 
Bank Receivership. Lewis received the degree of A. M., in course, 
from Amherst in 1886. He is unmarried. C Address: Care of 
Eaton, Lewis and Rowe, 30 Church street, New York. 



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PSDOHN WATKINS LOW, known in college as "Cupid," was 
^^Ijl born December 28, 1861, at Monticello, New York, the son 
iSRtt!^ of Hon. Henry R. Low. He was fitted under a private tutor 
and at the Amherst High School, entering college in the autumn 
of 1878 as a freshman, with the class of '82, but dropping into '83 
during sophomore year. In college he was a member of the 
senior society, **E. Pi D." C After graduating he edited, for a year 
and a half, the "Liberty (New York) Register," and was for four 
months on the staff of the "New York Star." He then left news- 
paper work and was for six years engaged in business in Middle- 
town, New York. He was married December 20, 1889, to Elizabeth 
Rose McChesney Scott of Middletown. In 1891 he went to New 
York City and was for a short time with the Ryder Engine Com- 
pany but in 1892 returned to journalism, taking a position on "The 
Sun," and in 1907 going to "The Times," with which paper he is 
now connected. CHe writes: "I have had my share of happiness 
and fun so far, I suppose, but clouds and rain enough to make me 
appreciate the sunshine, — much that I love to look back upon, 
some things I fain would forget, — about the average experience, I 
guess. I lost my wife Elizabeth in 1902; expect to marry again 
early in 1909. Then a new chapter. Nothing more of interest to 
the boys except that I am younger than I was ten years ago." 
CLow was married January 16, 1909, to Maude Harrington of 
Newport, Rhode Island. f[ Address: 706 W. i8oth street. New 
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[j^^OREY FULLER McFARLAND, called "Alac," was born 
Hv^ June 19, 1861, at Chicopee, Massachusetts, and fitted at the 
1^^^^ Amherst High School. He was a Delta Kappa Epsilon, an 
"E. Pi D.," a sophomore Kellogg speaker, president of the "Olio" 
Board and leader of the college glee club. C After graduating he 
went into the flour business, first in St. Louis, then in Memphis, 
and finally in Charleston, Illinois. In 1895 he went to Keokuk, 
Iowa, and since then has been part owner of the Rees-McFarland 
Paper Company. CMac was converted under the preaching of 
"Billy" Sunday and has recently done much effective evangelistic 
work, being called "the Keokuk Firebrand." (See newspaper com- 
ment on another page.) He writes: "I have been a moderately 
successful business man — am not within a thousand miles of rich 
and never will be, but manage to pay the grocer and have pie once 
in a while. Have always been healthy and have had lots of fun 
as I went along, — ^love out-door sports and am a crank on golf. 
I have not much to say about my career except that it seems to 
have been broader and more useful of late, as can be seen by the 
newspaper clippings. I hesitated about sending these but I thought 
that the boys who knew me and what kind of things interested me 
in my college days ought to know what I am trying to do now 
and what is in my heart and life." dMac was married November 
4, 1887, to Mamie D. Fizer of Memphis and has one son, Malcolm, 
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r^^gnOHN HART MANNING, generally called in college 
l^^ly *'Jack" Manning, was born amid the classic shades of 
^sJ^ Andover, Massachusetts, February 3, 1858. He learned the 
three R's in the public schools of his native town and prepared for 
college at Phillips Andover Academy, entering Amherst as a fresh- 
man in the autumn of 1879. In college he was a member of Delta 
Upsilon. CUpon graduating in 1883 he decided to devote himself 
to teaching, and began his work the following March as principal 
of the high school at West Barnstable, Massachusetts. There he 
remained three years. At the end of that time, wishing to get an 
idea of the educational atmosphere of the West, he resigned at 
West Barnstable and accepted the principalship of Toulon Academy 
at Toulon, Illinois. His selection of a field for the investigation 
was not altogether fortunate. A year in Toulon was quite 
enough for him and he returned to New England during the sum- 
mer of 1887, content to remain there. In the following February 
he was elected principal of the high school at Groton, Massachu- 
setts, a position which he has now held for twenty-one years. He 
is also superintendent of the Groton schools, secretary of the board 
of trustees of the Groton Public Library, and a generally useful 
and respected citizen. f[ Manning was married September 2, 1886, 
to Mary Frances Woodbridge of Andover and has one son, Mervyn 
Mason, born June 21, 1888, who is a graduate of Phillips 
Andover and a senior at Yale (class of '09). CAddress: Groton, 
Massachusetts. 



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RANK BALLARD MARSH was born in Brooklyn, New 
P York, July 20, i860, and fitted at the Brooklyn Collegiate 
y and Polytechnic Institute. At Amherst he was one of the 
Kellogg freshman speakers, an Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta 
Kappa. C During the autumn following his graduation he entered 
the employ of Lazell, Marsh and Gardner, the New York whole- 
sale druggists. The following summer he spent abroad and in 
November, 1884, went to Springfield, Massachusetts, to take a 
clerical position with the Connecticut River Railway. Here he 
remained until 1887, when he returned to Brooklyn, and became 
connected with the firm of Wm. McNaughton's Sons of New York, 
in the wool and fur commission business. In 1893 he transferred 
his interests from wool to perfumery; was elected secretary of 
Lazell, Dalley & Company, manufacturing perfumers, and has 
since remained in that business, becoming, in July, i8g6, secretary 
and treasurer of the Theo. Ricksecker Company, successors to the 
firm with which he was formerly connected. He has served as 
vice-president of the Manufacturing Perfumers' Association of the 
United States and is now a director and treasurer of that organi- 
zation. He is a prominent member of the Church of the Messiah, 
Brooklyn, and president of the Men's Guild. C[ Marsh was married 
October 3, 1888, to Marion Bolton of Brooklyn, and has three 
children: Edward Henry, born November 3, 1889, now a sopho- 
more at Amherst; Marion Penelope, December 20, 1894; ^^^ 
Morrison, September 6, 1901. C Address: 74 Reade street. New 
York City; Home: 326 Clermont avenue, Brooklyn, New York. 

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|ALVIN HENRY MORSE was born September 13, i860, 
at Ware, Massachusetts, and fitted for college at the 
Amherst High School. In college he was a Delta Kappa 
Epsilon, a Phi Beta Kappa, and one of the Hyde speakers. He 
here laid the foundation of his future success as a provider by the 
management of what was known as "Cal Morse's Club" and 
invented that famous foodstuff, "brewis." COf his post-collegiate 
career he writes: "The first five years after graduation were 
passed for the most part in the wilds of Wyoming and Dakota, in 
a successful effort to gain robust health. In 1888 I engaged in 
the hotel business, first in Denver, afterwards in the mountain 
mining cities of Aspen and Leadville. I was at times successful, 
but found myself 'busted' after the panic of '93. After a fruitless 
attempt at mining I again tried my luck at hotel-keeping in Denver, 
this time with better success, retiring from business in 1906, for a 
time at least. Last year I spent in travel through Egypt, the 
Levant and Europe, and this year I have enjoyed my home and 
the unrivalled climate of Colorado. I married Adelaide Louise 
Sanderson at Athens, New York, on November 14, 1889, and we 
have three children: Josephine Olive, born September 4, 1890; 
Carl Gantley, born November 19, 1892 ; Bradbury Bedell, born 
August 9, 1898. At our home a hearty welcome is assured to all of 
my classmates of '83 and their families who may chance to be in 
this *neck-o'-the-woods.' " CAddress: 1359 Race street, Denver, 
Colorado. 



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hl^aENRY CLARK NASH, the elder of "the Nashi," also desig- 
nj^m3 nated as "Nash ist," or "Big Nash," was born at Amherst 
Eft^^j^ on the first day of October, i860. He fitted for college at 
the Mount Pleasant Institute, of which his father, Henry C. Nash 
senior, was principal. C After graduating in 1883, H. C. went to 
Millington, New Jersey, where he entered the office of Nash and 
Brother, manufacturers of agricultural implements, as correspond- 
ing clerk. In the fall of 1884 he decided to follow law as a pro- 
fession. With this purpose in view he returned to Amherst and 
began his study of it in the well-known office of Dickinson and 
Cooper, teaching at the same time in Mount Pleasant Institute. 
He was admitted to the Hampshire County Bar March 2, 1887, and 
opened an office of his own in Amherst on June ist of the same 
year. He also served for some time as justice of the peace and for 
several years maintained an office in Northampton as well as in 
Amherst. In addition to his law business he has been interested in 
real estate and the promotion of various enterprises. CHe was 
married on October i, 1888, to Grace Lillian Owen of Amherst and 
has had four children, three of whom are now living : Henry Clark, 
3rd, born April 7, 1889; Raymond Owen, born April 7, 1890, died 
April 7, 1892; Willard Owen, born August 4, 1892, and Clifford 
Roberts, born August 23, 1897. Nash received from Amherst 
the degree of A. M., in course, in 1888. C Address: Amherst, 
Massachusetts. 



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ILLIAM KELLOGG NASH, known in college as "Nash 
2nd" or "little Nash," to distinguish him from his brother, 
H. C, Jr., was born at Amherst April 4, 1862, and prepared 
for college at the Mount Pleasant Institute, of which his father was 
principal. C After graduation Nash himself took charge of the 
school. This well-known institution was founded by Nash's grand- 
father, Rev. John A. Nash, and later was conducted for more than 
thirty years by his father, Henry C. Nash. Both father and grand- 
father were graduates of Amherst College, making W. K. the 
third in succession and maintaining the family tradition. The 
beautiful old property which was the home of this school for so 
many years became a landmark and is remembered by all Amherst 
students. The school in former years numbered among its pupils 
many prominent men, including Henry Ward Beecher and Richard 
S. Storrs. CIn July, 1902, the property passed into the possession 
of Nash's younger brother, Darwin. Nash then moved the school 
to Hadley, but it did not succeed in its new location and three 
years later, in the summer of 1905, he discontinued it. For the 
next three years he abandoned teaching and engaged in the insur- 
ance business. Last fall (1908) he went back into the schoolroom 
as teacher of mathematics and history in the new Smith Agricul- 
tural School and Northampton School of Technology at Northamp- 
ton. CNash was married, April 4, 1899, to an Amherst girl, Grace 
Maude, daughter of John H. Lindsay. He has one child^ Geraldine 
Lindsay, born December 20, 1899. C Address: 39 Franklin street, 
Northampton, Massachusetts. 

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ORATIO BANNISTER NEWELL, called "Rashe," was 
born August 27, 1861, at East Orrington, Maine, and fitted 
^ at Williston Seminary. At Amherst he was a Chi Phi and 
sophomore class historian. CAfter graduating he taught one year 
at Mechanicsville, New York, then entered Chicago Theological 
Seminary, completing a three years' course and spending the vaca- 
tions in home missionary work in Nebraska. In September, 1887, 
he went to Japan as a missionary under the American Board. He 
was at Niigata until 1904, except for a year's furlough in 1896-7, 
which was spent at Chicago Seminary in post-graduate work with 
residence at Chicago Commons. From Niigata he was transferred 
to Matsuyama, where he still resides. CHe writes: "I have not 
had 'trial of mockings and scourgings ;' haven't been *sawn asunder' 
or 'slain with the sword;' haven't even had to 'wander in holes in 
the earth,' — though I may sometimes have felt like it. I have 
'wandered in deserts' of snow till I lost my way and was told by 
my rescuer that I was on the roof of a house; have been bathing 
ujider guard of four policemen who kindly patrolled the beach and 
kept back eight hundred curious spectators." CRashe was mar- 
ried July 3, i88g, at Tokyo to Jane Cozad of Cleveland, Ohio, and 
has four children: Florence Cozad, born November 7, 1890; Justus 
Wellington, born October 31, 1893; Harriet, born December 4, 
1894; Horatio Whitman, born February 5, 1898. Besides his semi- 
nary degree, he received an A. M. from Amherst in 1901 and D. D. 
from Tabor College in 1908. C Address: Matsuyama, lyo, Japan. 



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LARENCE LINCOLN NICHOLS, generally known in 
college as "Nick," was born in the little hamlet of Water- 
ford, Minnesota, about forty miles from St. Paul, on the 
third day of January, 1861, — the son, as the family records have it, 
of Ziba Bass and Emily Porter Nichols. He was prepared for col- 
lege at the Shattuck School, in Faribault, Minnesota, and entered 
the class of '83 at the beginning of the course, as an inhabitant of 
Faribault. In college he was a member of Chi Psi and of the senior 
society Epsilon Pi Delta ("E. Pi D."). He was also president, 
senior year, of the foot ball association and manager of the college 
foot ball team. Having decided to become a physician, the autumn 
after graduating, in 1883, he took up the study of medicine at the 
Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, from which institution 
he graduated with the degree of M. D. two years later, in the 
spring of 1885 — standing the third in his class. After completing 
his medical studies he went west and began the practice of his pro- 
fession in Walla Walla, Washington, but not being entirely satis- 
fied with his surroundings he soon after removed to Portland, 
where he has since lived. In the fall of 1888 he went abroad and 
spent some time in the study of surgery in Paris. COn June 23, 
1898, he was married to Mary Roseburg Banks of Pittsburg, Penn- 
sylvania. Nick writes: "My biographical record for the past ten 
years can be summed up as ten years of steady work, and lots of 
it. ... I have got my pleasure out of it." C Address: 802 
Corbett Block, Portland, Oregon. 



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LEXANDER DANA NOYES, known in college as 
"Sandy," was born in Montclair, New Jersey, December 14, 
1862, and fitted at the Montclair High School. He was a 
Delta U, freshman Kellogg and junior modern language prize win- 
ner, Olio and Student editor. Phi Beta Kappa, a monitor. Com- 
mencement speaker, and Grove poet, author of the Senior play, 
"The New Rip Van Winkle," and a prominent actor in the same. 
CAfter graduation, he became a reporter for the "New York Trib- 
une," and in 1884 went over to the "Commercial Advertiser," being 
assigned to Wall Street at the outbreak of the panic of that year. 
He then spent eight months abroad, edited a trade journal and 
revised manuscripts for a New York publishing house until 1886, 
when he returned to the "Commercial" as financial editor, remaining 
five years and acting for a considerable period as editor-in-chief. 
In 189 1 he accepted the financial editorship of the "Evening Post," 
which he has occupied ever since, purchasing later an interest in 
the paper and now being one of its board of trustees and managers. 
He has written on financial, economic, political and social topics 
for all the prominent magazines and reviews in this country and 
abroad, has delivered courses of lectures at Harvard, New York and 
Illinois Universities and has published a book, "Thirty Years of 
American Finance" (1897). He was nominated for Congress on 
the Gold Democratic ticket in 1896, and wrote the "Evening Post's 
Free Coinage Catechism," of which two million copies were sold. 
Unmarried. C Address: Editorial rooms, "Evening Post," New 

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T'r'ILLIAM ORR was born November i6, i860, in Phila- 
Hdelphia. He fitted at the Springfield (Massachusetts) High 
\ School, his parents having moved to that city when he was 
thirteen. In college he was a Phi Beta Kappa and a commence- 
ment speaker. The first year after graduating he was principal of 
Hopkins Academy, Hadley, and the next three years principal of 
Smith Academy, Hatfield. In 1888 he became an instructor in the 
Springfield High School, and after several promotions was in 1900 
made principal, a position which he still holds. In addition to his 
regular duties he did summer work in 1890 under Professor Emer- 
son on the U. S. Geological Survey, and conducted sophomore 
classes in chemistry at Amherst during the winter term of 1893-4. 
In 1894 ^^ reorganized the Museum of Natural History at Spring- 
field and since 1895 has been its curator. He is a trustee of the 
International Y. M. C. A. Training School, fellow of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the Mas- 
sachusetts Council of Education, Massachusetts Committee of Selec- 
tion for the Rhodes Scholarship, Harvard University Committee on 
Relations of University to Secondary Schools, and a contributor 
to various m.agazines. He was married August 7, 1889, to Char- 
lotte Evelyn Pettis of Westfield, Massachusetts, and has had four 
children: Alan Gardner, born July 15, 1890; Helen Theresa, June 
8, 1895; Philip Gardner, March 12, 1897; ^^^ Charlotte Reid, Sep- 
tember 4, 1900. The younger two died in infancy. Alan is a fresh- 
man at Amherst. C Address: 30 Firglade avenue, Springfield, 

Massachusetts. 

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'ILLIAM BARRY OWEN, or "Billy" Owen, was born 
April 15, i860, at Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, and 
fitted at Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham. In college he 
was a Chi Phi. C After graduating he spent a year in recovering 
his health, and in October, '84, entered Boston University Law 
School, completing three years' work in two years and graduating 
in '86. He then studied patent law at Washington, and in '87 
returned to Boston, where he practiced seven years. He then 
became identified with the gramaphone in New York, and later 
went to London, where he organized the English and Continental 
business. There an artist submitted to him the picture "His Mas- 
ter's Voice," which is now perhaps better known over the world 
than any other picture ever used for advertising purposes. Owen's 
really great work was the idea of making the world's famous 
singers serve the people through the gramaphone. No one needs to 
be told of the marvelous results of this plan. He writes: "I have 
now retired from business to the home where I was born. No 
member of the class can land on Martha's Vineyard, God's own 
country, and look up Billy Owen without receiving a grand wel- 
come." CFor amusement Billy is running a model farm, raising 
Orpingtons and other aristocratic fowls and developing large plans 
for the improvement of Vineyard Haven as a summer resort. He 
was married February 22, 1887, to May M. Robinson of Vineyard 
Haven and has two sons: Paul, born October 27, 1891, and Knight, 
born May 9, 1893. CAddress: Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. 



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^^DWARD SMITH PARSONS, known aforetime as "Pard," 
7^^^ was born in Brooklyn, New York, August 9, 1863, and fitted 
1^^ at the Brooklyn "Poly." In college he was a Chi Psi, Sigma 



Psi, Phi Beta Kappa, Gym Captain, Freshman Historian, "Student" 
editor, Kellogg and Hyde speaker, and Class Orator. CThe 
winter after graduating he spent at the Columbia School of Political 
Science. In 1884 he entered Yale Divinity School, graduated three 
years later and took a year of post-graduate work. In 1888 he 
became pastor of the First Congregational Church of Greeley, 
Colorado. Four years later he resigned to accept the professorship 
of English in Colorado College, which he still holds. He spent a 
year (1900-01) studying at Oxford and Lausanne. On his return 
he was elected dean of Colorado College and in 1901-2 was acting 
president. In the fall of 1905 he suffered an attack of typhoid 
which, with resulting complications, compelled him to give up all 
work for nearly two years. CPard was married December 4, 
1889, to Mary Augusta Ingersoll of Cleveland. His children are: 
Esther, born October 29, 1890; Charles Edward, February 29, 
1892; Elizabeth Ingersoll, September 8, 1894; Josephine, May 23, 
1897, <ii^d February 16, 1899; Edward Smith, Jr., July 13, 1898; 
Talcott, December 13, 1902. CHe has published: "Literature for 
Children," Denver, 1896; "Milton's L' Allegro, II Penseroso, Comus 
and Lycidas" (school edition), Boston, 1900; "The Earliest Life of 
Milton," English Historical Review, January, 1901. He received 
the degree of L. H. D. from Amherst in 1903. C Address: 1130 
Wood avenue, Colorado Springs, Colorado. 

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^^aORNELIUS HOWARD PATTON, familiarly known as 
KCv^^ "Patt," was born in Chicago, on Christmas day, i860. His 
[■!^^^ father ana gianafather were Congregational ministers. He 
fitted at the Chicago High School, Howard University and Emerson 
Institute, Washington, D. C. ; was a Chi Phi, P. Q. and Sigma Psi, 
was on the "Olio" Board and the Glee Club and an actor in Senior 
dramatics. CHe writes: "Accepting the call of the ministry I 
disregarded the advice of Zach Stuart that I should first take a 
course in a reform school, and proceeded directly to Yale Divinity 
in the fall of 1883, receiving the degree of B. D. three years later. 
My first charge was the Congregational Church at Westfield, New 
Jersey, a suburb of New York, where I got on my feet profession- 
ally and had a delightful eight years. Then followed four years 
over Pilgrim Church, Duluth, and six years over the First Church, 
St. Louis. The call to the Home Secretaryship of the American 
Board came in the fall of 1904. The giving up of the pastorate was 
a real sacrifice at the time, as my heart was in the work. But there 
was much in my pastoral experience which led up to this particular 
secretaryship and I soon found my new work congenial." CPatt 
received the degree of D. D. from Amherst in 1899 and was elected 
a life member of the Board of Trustees of the college in 1905. On 
June 5, 1889, he married Pauline Whittlesey of Washington, D. C. 
They have two daughters: Augusta, born July 17, 1893, and 
Catherine, February 3, 1898. C Address: Office, Congregational 
House, 14 Beacon street, Boston. Home, 261 Franklin street, 
Newton, Massachusetts. 

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ILLIAM LOCKWOOD PEETwas born on the loth day 
of March, 1861. He fitted for college at Newport, Rhode 
Island, and entered Amherst at the beginning of the course. 
The following letter tells the main facts of his career since 1883: 
"My life since leaving college reminds me in some respects of 
Emerson's description of the broad western road that finally turned 
into a squirrel track and ran up a tree. I began with a life of 
considerable excitement; gold mining, lumbering in the mountains 
of Oregon, then journalism, prune-growing, and finally marriage, a 
wife, two boys and a girl. I can send you no newspaper clippings 
that would add to any glory to my career. Reports of escapes from 
indictment for criminal libel, a lurid write-up in Hearst's papers as 
an eccentric Englishman who went -without a hat in order to cure 
his bald head, and such items, make up the list. My address after 
October ist will be Washington, D. C. (as below). If any of the 
members of '83 are in Washington during the winter months and 
will look me up or let me know they are in the city, I shall always 
be glad to see them." tIPeet was married on October 4, 1899, to 
Hattie M. Robinson. Their children are: Robert Barfe, born 
November 5, 1900; Richard Willis, January 30, 1904; Elizabeth 
Dickinson, May 9, 1907. He is planning to buy a fruit farm in 
Maryland or Virginia, not too far from Washington to insure 
easy communication. He will spend his summers on the farm 
and his winters in the city. C Address: 3314 Newark street, 
Washington, D. C. 



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^^ENJAMIN WHIPPLE PENNOCK came into the world at 
r/I^iffl ^^tland, Vermont, May i, 1854. ^^ attended the public 
iS^f^ schools of Rutland and prepared for college at Phillips 
Exeter, entering Amherst as a freshman in September, 1879. The 
autumn following his graduation he matriculated at Yale Divinity 
School, but was obliged to remain out during a part of the winter, 
and completed the year at Andover. Dividing his allegiance quite 
impartially between the two schools, he went back to Yale for his 
middle year, and took his senior year at Andover, graduating from 
the latter in the spring of 1886. He then assumed the pastorate of 
the Congregational Church at Coleraine, Massachusetts, where he 
remained until November, 1887. Becoming dissatisfied with what 
he called "the theology of the tenth century," prevailing in his 
parish, he went to Boston, spent the winter supplying Unitarian 
pulpits, and the following spring accepted the pastorate of the 
Unitarian Church at Ware, where he remained three years. In 
1892 he returned to the Congregational fold and was for two years 
pastor of the Congregational Church at Troy, New Hampshire. 
He was then offered the position of assistant librarian of the New 
Bedford, Massachusetts, public library, which he accepted. Since 
1902 he has been pastor of the Congregational Church at Grafton, 
Vermont. dPennock was married September i, 1886, to Minnie H. 
Smith of Amherst and has two daughters: Grace Lavinia, born 
on Christmas day, 1890, now in the freshman class at Middlebury 
College, and Helen L., born June 14, 1897. C Address: Grafton, 
Vermont. 

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j^^jHARLES HENRY PRATT was born March 30, i860, at 
|^^§|] Princeton, Massachusetts, and fitted for college at Williston 
g^fe^ Seminary, Easthampton. In college he was a Phi Beta 
Kappa. The story of his life since he graduated from Amherst is 
told in a recent letter. CHe says: "In the fall of '83 I went to a 
live-stock ranch on the Pecos river in western Texas, where an out- 
door life is possible the year round. The open air, exercise of the 
range, abundant game, good fishing, and the novelty of the life 
greatly recuperated my health, which was the principal cause of my 
going west. The following spring I became a partner in the busi- 
ness and continued in it there till the fall of '94, experiencing all 
the 'downs' with perhaps a few of the *ups' of that romantic occu- 
pation. Selling out, I lived in Massachusetts for two years, doing 
desultory work in the civil engineering line. In the fall of '96 I 
went to Denver, Colorado, where I became interested in mining 
and mining machinery, receiving two patents on an improved rock 
drill that I got out. In 1900 I again took up civil engineering and 
was in the employ of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in 
Colorado and Wyoming, mostly on hydraulic work, till the summer 
of '07, when I came to my present place as field engineer for the 
American Beet Sugar Company in eastern Colorado. I was mar- 
ried November 17, 1897, to Hannah Jessemine of Buffalo, New 
York. We have one son, Stuart Wilkins, born January 13, 1899." 
C Address: Granada, Colorado. 



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LEXANDER RAE, or "Aleck," as he was more frequently 
called in the old days, was born in the city of Brooklyn, 
New York, on the 23rd day of November, Anno Domini 
1858. In his early youth he attended the public schools of his 
native city and was fitted for college at the Adelphi Academy, of 
Brooklyn, entering Amherst with the class of '83 as a freshman in 
the autmn of 1879. In college he was a member of Alpha Delta 
Phi and of the senior society, Sigma Psi. He v/as also one of the 
Phi Beta Kappa men from '83. Having decided before the end of 
his college course to become a physician, he entered, in the autumn 
of 1883, following his graduation, the Long Island Medical College, 
and, having completed his medical course in two years, graduated 
from that institution in June, 1885, at the head of his class, with 
the degree of M. D. to his credit and an appointment to the resident 
staff of the Long Island College Hospital. He served there as 
house surgeon for one year. In the spring of 1886 he received an 
appointment as assistant to the professor of anatomy in the Long 
Island Medical College, and later became visiting surgeon in the 
hospital and lecturer in surgery in the college. He is now Adjunct 
Professor of Surgery in the Long Island Medical College; is also 
Inspector for the Brooklyn City Department of Health, and surgeon 
for the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Company. In addition to 
these duties he has a large private practice. He is unmarried. 
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hf^jyENRY THOMAS RAINEY, known in college days as 
nJ^mS "Pete," was born at Carrollton, Illinois, August 20, i860. 
Eiv^^j>^ He fitted for college at the Carrollton High School and at 
Knox Academy, Galesburg, Illinois, and took his first two years at 
Knox College, entering Amherst at the beginning of junior year. 
At Amherst he was a good speaker and a boxer of some repute. 
CAfter graduation he entered the Union College of Law at Chi- 
cago, completing the course in 1885 with the degree of LL. B. He 
was admitted to the bar a few days before graduating and began 
the practice of his profession at Carrollton, his old home. In 
November, 1902, he was elected to Congress from the Twentieth 
Illinois District on the Democratic ticket, and has been returned at 
each election with increased majorities. He is one of the notable 
orators on the floor of the House and has made speeches which 
have attracted wide attention. His speech on John Paul Jones in 
the Fifty-ninth Congress and the bill which he introduced in con- 
nection with it led to the return of the body of our first naval hero 
to this country. He has been prominent more recently as an advo- 
cate of deep water ways, has waged war against the trusts, 
notably the Watch Trust and the Standard Oil Company, and has 
paid his respects to the Republican administration. Last November 
he was returned to Congress for his fourth term. C^ainey was 
married June 27, 1888, to Ella McBride of Harvard, Nebraska. In 
1886 he received from Amherst the degree of A. M. in course. 
CL Address: Carrollton, Illinois. 

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ENJAMIN RUSH RHEES was born in Chicago, February 
8, i860, and fitted at the Plainfield (New Jersey) High 
School. In college he was an Alpha Delta Phi, Sigma Psi, 
Phi Beta Kappa, Commencement speaker and winner of the Hardy 
prize. After graduation he served two years as Walker Instructor 
in Mathematics at Amherst; then entered Hartford Theological 
Seminary, graduating in 1888. After three years as pastor of the 
Middle Street Baptist Church of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he 
resigned in 1892 to accept the associate professorship of New Tes- 
tament Interpretation in the Newton Theological Institution. He 
spent the summer of 1893 i^^ study at Berlin. In 1894 he became 
professor at Newton and remained there until 1900, issuing in 1896 
the pamphlet, "St. Paul's Experience as a Factor in His Theology," 
and receiving in 1897 the degree of A. M. from Amherst for a thesis 
on the Life of Paul. He was married July 6, 1899, to Harriet Chapin 
Seelye, daughter of President Seelye of Smith College, and on the 
same day was elected president of Rochester University, a position 
which he assumed a year later and now fills. In 1900 he published 
the "Life of Jesus of Nazareth" (Scribners). He received the 
degree of LL. D. from Amherst in 1900, and D. D. from Colgate 
University in 1901. He has three children: Morgan John, born 
June 15, 1900; Henrietta Seelye, February i, 1904, and Rush, Jr., 
March 19, 1905. He with his family is now spending a year in 
Europe. C Address: 440 University avenue, Rochester, New York. 



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RTHUR PRENTICE RUGG was born August 20, 1862, at 
Sterling, Massachusetts, and fitted at the Lancaster (Mas- 
sachusetts) High School. He was an "Olio" editor in col- 
lege. C After graduation he went through Boston University Law 
School, was orator at Commencement, and librarian. The following 
autumn he entered the office of John R. Thayer of Worcester and 
within a year was a member of the firm. He also taught in the 
evening schools. He has held the following offices : Assistant Dis- 
trict Attorney (1893-4 and 1895-7), member of the City Council 
(1894-5), president of the Council (1895), City Solicitor (1897-1906). 
He was also counsel for the New York, New Haven and Hartford 
Railroad Company and other corporations. In September, 1906, 
Governor Guild appointed him to the Supreme Bench of Massachu- 
setts. The press referred to the appointment as one of the most 
popular that had been made in years, and stated that Rugg was 
probably the youngest Justice ever seated on the Massachusetts 
Supreme Bench. He was then forty-four. Rugg was given the 
degree of LL. D. by Amherst at our last reunion (1908). CHe 
was married April 10, 1889, to Florence May Belcher of Worcester 
and has had four children : Charles Belcher, born January 20, 1890 
(Amherst, '10); Arthur Prentice, Jr., August 22, 1893; Esther 
Cynthia, September 5, 1896; Donald Sterling, August 18, 1898, died 
February 22, 1899. Though much of his time is spent in Boston, 
his home is still in Worcester. C Address: Court House, Boston, 
or 488 Pleasant street, Worcester. 

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EORGE RUGG first saw the light at Rochester, Massachu- 
setts, July 2, 1862. His family moved to New Bedford, 
Massachusetts, while he was still a youngster and he fitted 
at the New Bedford High School. His life since 1883 has been 
spent, as he expresses it, "amid the chalk-dust and perplexities of 
the schoolroom." He began teaching as principal of Milford 
Academy, Milford, Delaware, and remained there two years. He 
summarizes the work of the next seventeen years as follows: 
" '85-'88, Principal Thompson Street School, New Bedford, Mas- 
sachusetts ; '88-'90, Sub-master Brattleboro, Vermont, High School ; 
'go-'gi. Principal Ipswich, Massachusetts, High School; '91 -'00, 
Principal Grafton, Massachusetts, High School; 'oo-'o2, Principal 
Chicopee, Massachusetts, High School." In 1902 he resigned at 
Chicopee and spent a year in Harvard University, taking courses in 
education and economics, and received from Harvard the degree 
of A. M. While there he was vice-president of the Harvard Educa- 
tional Conference. After completing this graduate work he was 
offered the superintendency of the Princeton-Sterling-Westminster 
district, near Worcester, Massachusetts. He accepted it and has 
remained there since. He has recently been made chairman of the 
Worcester County School Superintendents' Club. CRugg was 
married July 20, 1887, to Grace Agnes Rogers of Brockton, Mas- 
sachusetts, and has two children: Gertrude Rogers, born Sep- 
tember 18, 1888, now a sophomore at Wellesley, and Charles Parks, 
born July 13, 1891, a senior in the Worcester Classical High School. 
C Address: 38 Somerset street, Worcester, Massachusetts. 

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^^DWARD EMERSON SABEN, or "Sabe" for short, was 
1^^^ born November 3, 1861, at Somerville, Masachusetts, fitted 



at the Somerville High School and joined the ranks of '83 
at the beginning of our course. He was a Chi Psi and "E. Pi D." 
C After graduating he worked a few months in the Boston Custom 
House, spent a year at St. Albans, Vermont, and in January, 1885, 
returned to Boston, where he entered the employ of the Denison 
Manufacturing Company. He remained with this firm nine years, 
and in 1894 established an insurance business, which he has since 
conducted. In 1899 he served on the City Council of Somerville. 
He writes : "The various microbes which more or less gently release 
our grip on life have treated me with no more than ordinary con- 
sideration. The usual indications of advancing years, loss of eye- 
sight, loss of hearing, loss of — the last escapes me just now — Ah ! I 
have it — loss of memory, — these relentless foes have planted their 
standards about my person. After ten years of slavish working for 
somebody else I embarked in business on my own account and 
have since then made slavish wages and cultivated a ^champagne 
appetite on a beer income.' " For the last five years Sabe has, in 
addition to his business in Boston, maintained a farm in New 
Hampshire. He says he gets free seeds from Pete Rainey and 
buys fancy hens from Billy Owen. He recommends the simple 
life and thinks there is nothing like coaxing an abandoned farm. 
He is unmarried. C Address : 32 Kilby street, Boston. 



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^LIVER CHEEVER SEMPLE was born at Bennington, 
Vermont, July 29, 1861, and fitted at the Lowell (Mas- 
sachusetts) High School. In college he was a Psi Upsilon, 
Phi Beta Kappa and prize winner in English composition and 
physiology. C After graduating he was for one year principal of 
the Mann Grammar School at Lowell and one year principal of the 
Pawtucket Grammar School of the same city. He then spent a 
year at the Columbia Law School and went to Minneapolis, where 
he was admitted to the bar in 1886. He practiced in Minneapolis 
until 1 89 1, and then in New York City. Since 1893 he has been 
active in the Committee of Seventy, Good Government Club, Citi- 
zens' Union and Republican campaigns in New York, and in 1906-8 
was a member of the Republican County Committee. He was 
Assistant Corporation Counsel in 1902-3, having general super- 
vision, in the main office, of trial and litigated practice, but has been 
since 1891 mainly in private practice, making a special study of 
railroad and corporation law as affecting public service franchises 
and obligations, particularly under the Rapid Transit Acts in New 
York. He has drafted and urged legislation for the regulation of 
such corporations. Upon the adoption of the Public Service Com- 
missions Law, July i, 1907, he became First Assistant Counsel to 
the Commission of the First District (New York City) and organ- 
ized its law department. CI He married Hester M. Calahan of New 
York, June 8, 1898. C[ Address: Private office, 60 Wall street; 
Commission's office. Tribune Building, 154 Nassau street. New 
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lENRY AUSTIN SIMONDS, known as "Sy," was born 
April 9, 1 86 1, at Athol, Massachusetts, and fitted at the 
Athol High School. He received one of the Topping "good- 
boy" prizes, freshman year. In the autumn of 1883 he went to 
Farmington, Missouri, as instructor in Latin and Greek at Carleton 
Institute. In 1887 he took a similar position in Nebraska Central 
College, Central City, Nebraska. A year later he went into public 
school work and was for two years superintendent at Allegan, 
Michigan, nine years superintendent at Stevens Point, Wisconsin, 
and seven years superintendent at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. In 1906 he 
resigned, went west and took possession of a farm which he had 
purchased near Bothell, Washington. While getting the farm 
under cultivation he is also acting as principal of the school at 
Bothell. Sy was married, June 18, 1884, to Elizabeth Goodenough 
of Oneida, Wisconsin (Mt. Holyoke, '82). May 16, 1885, his oldest 
boy, Albert Goodenough, was born, making a close race with 
Chesley's boy for the class cup, but losing by about six weeks, — 
also losing the Mt. Holyoke trophy by a narrow margin. Albert 
married in 1906 and has a son who calls Sy "grandpa." This beats 
Ches. Sy's family census is completed as follows: (2) William 
Adams, September 19, 1887, now at the University of Washington; 
(3) Alice Frances, December 4, 1889; (4) Sarah Elizabeth, Novem- 
ber 24, 1892; (5) Esther, March 23, 1895; (6) John Marion, July 8, 
1898; (7) Ruth, January 22, 1901, died February 22, 1901. 
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hp^JENRY AUGUSTUS HAMMOND SMITH, better known 
njMmH as **Harry," was born July 5, i860, at Oswego, New York. 
Blp(?^ His early schooling was somewhat desultory. He says he 
fitted for college in a half-dozen different places, but he came to us 
freshman year as a resident of Faribault, Minnesota. In college he 
was a Psi U. and "E. Pi D." He showed the artistic temperament, 
was skillful with his pencil, drew pictures for "The Olio," took 
part in Senior dramatics and sang on the Glee Club. CAfter 
graduating he spent a year at Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, 
engraving. In July, 1884, he went to New York and studied art. 
Of the succeeding years he writes: "Until 1895 I worked as a 
designer for interior decoration and stained glass in New York City. 
Then I went abroad, spending that year and part of '96 traveling 
and studying. While in Europe I became interested in the 
restoration of old paintings. I decided to take up that work, and 
since then have given practically all my time to it. In 1902 I again 
went abroad for special study. In 1907 I was married to Ruth A. 
Cook, a writer and lecturer on Natural History. I have charge of 
the paintings of the New York Historical Society, the Hispanic 
Society of America and several private collections. My home has 
been in New York City until this fall. We are now located at 
Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, twenty-four miles out." Since this 
was written Harry has received an appointment from the 
Metropolitan Art Museum, as restorer. This is in addition to his 
other work. C Address : Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. 

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r^^SAAC FINNEY SMITH,called "I. F.," was born down on 
pjlt^ Cape Cod at North Truro, July 6, i860. During his childhood 
\^^M his parents moved to Provincetown, where I. F. attended the 
public schools and the high school. He and Whitcomb came to 
Amherst together in 1879 and joined the incipient class of '83. He 
was a member of the Torch and Crown. CI Upon graduating Smith 
decided to become a teacher and began his work at Poughkeepsie in 
the autumn of '83. After two years at Poughkeepsie he spent a 
year at Fort Bowie, Arizona, as tutor to the sons of the command- 
ing officer of the military post. While there he visited Old Mexico 
and took numerous notes which he has utilized. In 1886 he returned 
to New York City, and has since been a resident of the metropolis. 
CHe writes: "My time since 1883 has been spent in teaching, 
almost entirely in private schools and as private tutor. I have been 
a lecturer for the New York City Board of Education for nine years 
and have done some writing for the papers, including Harper's 
Weekly. By the invitation of the editors I contributed an article 
a few pages in length on the City of Mexico for the Encyclopedia 
Americana." Among the most popular of I. F.'s lectures are "The 
City of Mexico" and "Literary and Historic Shrines of Boston and 
Vicinity," which have attracted considerable attention and received 
favorable notice in high places. I. F. received from Amherst in 1886 
the degree of A. M., in course. He is unmarried. C Address: 319 
West Fifty-seventh street, New York City, or Provincetown, 
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SGOOD SMITH, known in college as "Osmith," or "O," 
was born in Portland, Maine, July 15, 1863, and fitted at 
the Portland High School. In college he was a Chi Psi, 
Phi Beta Kappa, and winner of the first junior German prize. 
CThe summer after graduating he studied German, Greek and 
Latin at the Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute and in September 
took a position as teacher of these languages in the Princeton 
(Illinois) High School, where he remained two years. In 1885 he 
returned to Portland and entered the law office of Symonds and 
Libby, afterward continuing his studies at the Harvard Law School 
and graduating with the class of 1889. For nine years he practiced 
law in New York City. During the Spanish war he served as a 
Second Lieutenant and later as a First Lieutenant in the Twelfth 
Regiment, New York Infantry, and was mustered out with the rank 
of Captain in March, 1899. In 1899 and 1900 he was on several 
civil commissions under General Ludlow in Havana. Seeing an 
excellent opportunity for the practice of law in Cuba he determined 
to locate there and in 1900 opened an office in Havana. He has 
been retained principally in cases involving claims for damages to 
the property of Americans in Cuba — pending before the Spanish 
Treaty Claims Commission in Washington. This work calls him 
often to Washington, but he makes his home in Havana. He is 
unmarried. He has received from Amherst the degree of A. M. in 
course. C Address: Empedrado 5, Havana, Cuba. 



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ILLIAM BRADFORD SPROUT, familiarly called 
"Sprouty," is a native of Worcester, Massachusetts, having 
been born in that city on the loth of July, 1859. He fitted 
at the Worcester High School, and entered Amherst with '83 at the 
beginning of the course. He was an Alpha Delta Phi, a P. Q., 
a member of the "Olio" Board, Glee Club and college quartette. 
He was also a Kellogg speaker freshman year, a Hyde speaker 
senior year, class president sophomore year, and winner of the 
second Hardy prize for debate. <[ After graduating in 1883, he 
studied law in Worcester and was admitted to the bar early in 
1885. He practiced in Worcester until 1890, representing his district 
for two years (1889-1890) in the Massachusetts Legislature. In 
1890 he moved to Boston and accepted the position of attorney for 
the West End Street Railway Company. When the West End was 
leased to the Boston Elevated Railway Company, he withdrew and 
resumed private practice, in which he is still engaged, with every 
evidence of prosperity. His home since 1892 has been in 
Brookline. C Sprout was married in May, 1886, to Nellie L. 
Fisk of Sterling, Illinois. On January 30, 1889, a daughter, 
Ethelwyn C, was born to them. Mrs. Sprout died July 17, 1892, 
and Ethelwyn about three years later, February 22, 1895. In 1899 
(June 28th) Sprout was married to Margaret Lander Bigelow of 
Natick, Massachusetts. They have two children, William Bradford, 
Jr., born April 4, 1900, and Margaret L., born January 30, 1904. 
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mentary education in the public school of his native town, prepared 
for college at the Haverhill, Massachusetts, High School, and 
entered Amherst with our class as a freshman in the fall of 1879. 
In college, while he did not take a particularly active part in student 
life, he attended strictly to business, stood well in his classes and 
was rewarded senior year by being appointed one of the Phi Beta 
Kappa men. He was sometimes called "the silent." CAfter 
graduating, Stickney returned to his home at Groveland, Massa- 
chusetts, and went to work in his father's shoe factory, which was 
then located in that town. He remained there nearly a year until 
in the spring of 1884 the factory was moved to Fond du Lac, 
Wisconsin, and Stickney went with it. Three years later, in 1887, 
the business was bought out by C. M. Henderson & Company, a 
large and aggressive shoe firm with a penchant for absorbing its 
competitors. Stickney remained in the employ of the new owners 
until June i, i8gi, but did not relish the change of management and 
accordingly resigned, returning to his home at Groveland, Massa- 
chusetts. During the eight years from 1892 to 1900 he was employed 
as private secretary to the late Governor Roger Wolcott in Boston 
— 945 Exchange Building. Since that time he has made his home 
at West Newbury, Massachusetts. He is unmarried. C Address: 
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pLLIAM Z. STUART, better known as "Zach," entered 
the world at Logansport, Indiana, September 27, 1861. 
He fitted at Williston Seminary. In college he was a 
Psi Upsilon and "E. Pi D.," class president junior and senior years, 
a member of the college football team, and president of the baseball 
association. After graduating he went to Wisconsin as bookkeeper 
for J. A. Kimberley & Company, millers, at Neenah. A year later 
the flour mill became a paper mill and passed into the hands of the 
Kimberley and Clark Company. Zach was soon manager of the 
sales and construction departments and helped to organize mean- 
while the Pulp Wood Supply Company and a water power company, 
in both of which he was a directing officer. COn Christmas day, 
1889, he was married to Helen Cheney Kimberley, daughter of the 
president of the Kimberley and Clark Company. His first child 
was born and died New Year's, 1893; his second, Kimberley Stuart, 
was born May 19, 1895. In 1901 Zach became manager of the 
General Paper Company, the second largest combination of paper 
mills in the United States. After four years in this position he 
resigned and went abroad for a much needed rest. Six months later 
he was back again developing a mining property in Mexico. The 
company is known as the Black Mountain Mining Company and he 
is its president. He writes that he expects to be more in "the 
States" after the present winter, CHis address is Magdalena 
Sonora, Mexico; Redlands, California; Neenah, Wisconsin; and 135 
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j^^jEORGE MASON TROWBRIDGE was born in Dubuque, 
f^^^l •'•°^^» October i6, 1861, the son of a clergyman. During his 
2^^^ boyhood the family moved to Chicago, where George 
attended the public schools, Lake Forest Academy and the Univer- 
sity School. He was on "The Olio" while at Amherst. CAfter 
graduating he returned to Chicago and, with Rainey, entered the 
Union College of Law, completing the course in 1885. After 
practicing eleven years in Chicago, he went to Los Angeles in 1896 
and took up newspaper work, starting as a reporter on the "Times" 
and two years later becoming city editor of the "Herald." In the 
spring of 1901 he went to San Francisco, on the "Chronicle" and 
was later on the "Bulletin" — giving special attention to politics 
and municipal government. In December 1902 he went to Portland, 
Oregon, and took a position on the "Oregon Journal," a struggling 
paper then eight months old, with a circulation of only 6,000. It 
now has a circulation more than five times that size, is one of the 
most influential papers in the state, and Trowbridge is its editor. 
He writes: "While Democratic in national politics, we have been 
independent in state and city elections. We have striven to support 
only the best men for office, and have scored some remarkable 
victories. The last and greatest was the triumph of the principle 
of popular election of United States Senators. We have had a 
tremendous fight, with every machine politician in the state against 
us." Trowbridge is unmarried. C Address: C/o. "Oregon Journal," 
Portland, Oregon. 



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y^^HARLES AUGUSTUS TUTTLE was born November 27, 
jflfc^^ 1862, at Hadley, Massachusetts, and fitted at Hopkins 
1^^^^ Academy. He was a Phi Beta Kappa, a Hyde and Com- 
mencement speaker, and winner of the Bond and "good boy" prizes. 
C After graduating he taught a year in the Ware (Massachusetts) 
High School and then spent two years at Heidelberg, studying 
economics, political science and international, Roman and consti- 
tutional law. He received his Ph. D. "insigne cum laude," in 1886. 
The same year he returned to Amherst as instructor in political 
economy, and in May, 1892, was made associate professor. In the 
autumn of 1893 he was elected professor of history and sociology 
in Wabash College, Indiana. He is now professor of history, 
political economy and political science at Wabash. He has 
published *'The Wealth Concept; a Study in Economic Theory" 
(1891); "Clark's Distribution of Wealth" (1891) ; "The Funda- 
mental Economic Principle" (1901) ; "The Workman's Position in 
the Light of Economic Progress" (1901) ; "The Real Capital Con- 
cept" (1903) ; and "The Fundamental Notion of Capital Once 
More" (1904). He has been a member of the Council of the Amer- 
ican Economic Association since 1886; on the editorial staff, for 
economic terms, of the Standard Dictionary; a delegate to the 
Indianapolis Monetary Convention (1898), and a recognized 
authority on economic theory. C January 6, 1891, he married Affa 
Sophia Miner, of Ware, Massachusetts. They have two children: 
Miner Worthington, born March 31, 1893, and Elizabeth Mary 
Affa, December 11, 1898. C Address: Crawfordsville, Indiana. 

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EORGE ALBERT TUTTLE, the elder of our two Tuttle 
brothers, began his life also at Hadley, Massachusetts, 
December 2, 1859. He received his elementary education 
in his native village, prepared for college at the Amherst High 
School, and entered as a freshman with the rest of the class of '83 
in September, 1879. In college he was a member of Delta Kappa 
Epsilon. He was a good student, and senior year became a Phi 
Beta Kappa. C Having decided to devote himself to the practice 
of medicine he spent the year after graduation (1883-84) in the 
office of Dr. L. M. Tuttle of Holyoke, Massachusetts, learning the 
rudiments of the science and picking up much valuable experience. 
In the autumn of 1884 he went to New York and entered the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons. His work in Holyoke enabled 
him to complete the course in two years and he graduated, with 
honors, in May, 1886, in the same class with Haven. For two 
years he served in Roosevelt Hospital, part of the time as house 
surgeon. Following this he received an appointment as instructor 
in histology, pathology, and bacteriology at the New York Poly- 
clinic, which he accepted, remaining there four years. In 1890 he 
began work as bacteriologist in the Presbyterian Hospital and 
occupied the position with distinction until 1907. Meanwhile he 
was, in 1897, rnade visiting physician to the PreslDyterian Hospital. 
The latter position he still holds. Tuttle has written a number of 
monographs on medical subjects. He is unmarried. C Address: 
49 West Forty-ninth street, New York City. 



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JOHN BALDWIN WALKER, or "J. B./' was born at Lodi, 
New Jersey, January i6, i860. His childhood was spent in 
New England, where his father was a clergyman, and where 
J. B. fitted at Phillips Exeter. He was a Chi Psi. At the end of 
sophomore year he went to Harvard to take elective courses leading 
to the study of medicine. He graduated from Harvard in 1884 and 
from Harvard Medical School in 1888. After eighteen months in 
the Boston City Hospital he went abroad, doing surgical work in 
hospitals in Vienna, Munich, Heidelberg, Paris, and London. In 
1 89 1 he began practice in Cleveland, Ohio, and was appointed sur- 
geon to the Otis Steel Works. After another period of study abroad 
he settled in New York City, in March, 1892. He is surgeon to 
Bellevue Hospital and the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, 
consulting surgeon to the Manhattan State Hospital and lecturer 
on surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons; a member 
of the American Surgical Association, American Medical Associa- 
tion, and numerous other learned societies, and one of the origi- 
nators of the Private Hospital Association. He has also been 
president of the Harvard Medical Society of New York City; Cor- 
poration Councillor of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association and 
chairman of the Surgical Section of the New York Academy of 
Medicine, and is the author of numerous monographs on surgical 
subjects. Last June ('08) Amherst gave him the degree of A. B. 
He is unmarried. C Address: 39 East Thirty-third street. New 
York City. 



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[ILLISTON WALKER was born in Portland, Maine, July 
I, i860. His father and grandfather were Congregational 
ministers. He prepared for college at the high school, 
Brattleboro, Vermont, and entered Amherst as a resident of Hart- 
ford, Connecticut. In college he was an Alpha Delta Phi, a Phi 
Beta Kappa, one of the four monitors, a commencement speaker 
and Ivy Poet. COn graduating he spent three years in Hartford 
Theological Seminary, and two years in the University of Leipzig, 
where he received the degree of Ph. D. in 1888. In 1888-9 he was 
Associate in History in Bryn Mawr College. From 1889 to 1901 
he taught Church History in Hartford Theological Seminary; and 
since 1901 has been Titus Stout Professor of Ecclesiastical History 
in Yale University. He has published: "The Increase of Royal 
Power in France under Philip Augustus," Leipzig, 1888; "The 
Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism," New York, 1893; 
"The History of the Congregational Churches in the United 
States," New York, 1894; "The Reformation," New York, 1900; 
"Ten New England Leaders," Boston, 1901 ; "John Calvin," New 
York, 1906; "Great Men of the Church," New York, 1909. He 
received the degree of D. D. from Western Reserve in 1894; from 
Amherst in 1895; from Yale in 1901. Since 1896 he has been a 
trustee of Amherst, and is secretary of the board. CHe was 
married June i, 1886, to Alice, daughter of Professor Mather of 
Amherst, and has two daughters: Amelia, born August 9, 1894, 
Elizabeth, August 2, 1902. He is president of the New Haven Col- 
ony Historical Society. C Address: 281 Edwards Street, New Haven. 

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ILARENCE EUGENE 
WARD, known as 
"Governor" Ward, or 
"Govvy" for short, has with- 
held all information relating to 
his birth, parentage and early 
life. He is probably a native 
of the United States and the 
year of his birth may be placed 
conservatively between 1810 
and 1879, at the latter of which 
dates he emerged upon our 
horizon as an inhabitant of 
Riverton, Connecticut, and 
joined the class of '83 at the 
beginning of freshman year. 
In college he was one of the 
quartette of boxers who trained 
under Bill Dole, and whose 
portraits, in quite inconsider- 
able costume, appear on an- 
other page of this volume. In 
the senior class elections he 
was made "prophet upon the 
prophet" and given a chance 
on Class Day to polish off Ches- 
ley, which he did not neglect. 
C After leaving Amherst we get only fleeting glimpses of him. 
It is known that he resided in Riverton, Connecticut, for a number 
of years, that he was for a time employed by the Connecticut 
Bureau of Education, that he was one of the supervisors of his 
town, that in 1887 he ran for the Connecticut Legislature on the 
Dem.ocratic ticket, and that in 1892-3 he studied law at the Albany 
Law School. In 1893 he was at Riverton in the lumber business. 
The next heard of him is a newspaper dispatch from Chester, Mas- 
sachusetts, to "The Springfield Republican" in 1907 which stated 
that "C. E. Ward, who boards at the Riverside Inn, was awakened 
about three o'clock this morning, by the sound of falling glass. 
He looked out of the window, saw a man standing in the road and 
asked him what he was doing. With a muttered oath the man 
started to run. Mr. Ward then called Mr. Packard, the landlord, 
but before they could dress and give chase all trace of the burglar 
had vanished." After this heroic act. Gov. again disappears until 
last December (1908) when Orr talked with him by telephone in 
Springfield. He promised to have his photograph taken for the 
class book and after repeated inquiries from Orr, said that he had 
tried three times and couldn't get a picture good-looking enough for 
the purpose. CHe is unmarried, has recently been in the lumber 
business in Chester and Huntington, but has now retired, and is 
living at the Parks House, Huntington, Massachusetts. 



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RANK DALE WARREN, known in college as "Bob" 
Warren, was born in the city of Boston, on the third day of 
May, in the year i860. He obtained his elementary educa- 
tion in this favorite seat of culture and fitted for college at Phillips 
Andover Academy. In college he was a Delta Kappa Epsilon. 
He was interested in athletics and baseball, played on the college 
ball nine, and was captain of the class nine. CAfter graduation 
he went into the paper business. From 1883 to 1886 he was con- 
nected with the Fairchild Paper Company of Boston and Pepperell, 
Massachusetts, and during 1886-87 with the Champion Card and 
Paper Company of Pepperell. In the spring of 1887 he went to 
New York City and became associated with W. H. Clarke. CIHe 
writes: "I am still in the paper business and a member of the 
firm of Clarke and Company. I am still married and the family 
register remains the same. I have held such unsalaried and under- 
salaried offices as inevitably fall to the lot of the man who dislikes 
to be disagreeable. After serving four years as Mayor of Fanwood, 
I moved west. This doesn't look well, but it was all right, as I 
moved only two miles. It took me across the line, however, and 
within the limits of Plainfield, where I now live." COn June 19, 
1889, Warren was married to Louise Taft of Uxbridge, Massachu- 
setts. He has two children, Frank Dale, Jr., born July 9, 1897, ^^^ 
Mary, born September 6, 1899. C Address: Office, 225 Fifth 
avenue. New York City. Home, Plainfield, New Jersey. 



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jHARLES HENRY WASHBURN was born at Auburndale, 
Massachusetts, December 9, i860, and fitted at the Melrose 
(Massachusetts) High School. At Amherst he took one 
of the Topping prizes, and after graduating entered Andover, but 
left soon after to take charge of the Western Avenue Union 
Chapel, Boston. In January, 1885, he became pastor of the Con- 
gregational church of Saugus, Massachusetts, and in December was 
called to Berlin, Massachusetts, where he was pastor three years. 
The next three years he preached at Woburn and in October, 1890, 
went to the old First Church of Falmouth, where he remained eight 
years, taking an active interest in the affairs of the town, being 
president of the Board of Trade, and a moving spirit in the historic 
tercentenary celebration of Bartholomew Gosnold's visit to Wood's 
Holl. Here he issued two booklets, "Falmouth by the Sea," and 
"Residential Falmouth." From Falmouth, Washburn went to 
Berkeley Temple, Boston, as associate pastor. A year and a half 
later he went west, to Phillips Church, Salt Lake City, but soon 
returned, and was five years pastor at Maynard, Massachusetts. 
In 1904 he was installed over his present charge, Trinity Congre- 
gational Church, Neponset, Dorchester. CHe was married April 
22, 1886, to Louise Wentworth Chaffin of Boston, and has five 
children: Ruth Emery, born March 25, 1887; Almy Dwight, 
November i, 1888 (Harvard '12); Ralph Seelye, August 25, 1890; 
Lawrence Gould, February 23, 1893; Walter Bailey Chaffin, April 
25, 1897. C Address: 11 South Munroe Terrace, Dorchester, 
Massachusetts. 

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^^LBRIDGE JOHN WHITAKER opened his eyes upon this 
l^^g world at Wabaunsee, Kansas, on the nth of November, 
^^1 1859, but came to Amherst as a resident of Franklin, 
Massachusetts. He fitted at the Franklin High School. CAfter 
graduating from college he taught at Wrentham, Massachusetts, 
for nine years, — two years as head of the Sheldonville Grammar 
School and seven years as principal of the Wrentham High School. 
During all this time he spent his leisure reading law. At length 
in December, 1892, he resigned his school position, went to Boston 
and entered the law office of Fales and Millen. He was admitted 
to the bar in July, 1894, and the following November was elected to 
the Massachusetts Legislature from the Wrentham District. Four 
years later he was elected for a second term. In February, 1889, 
he was appointed special justice of the District Court of Western 
Norfolk, a position which he still holds. He manages most of the 
political affairs of Wrentham, has been moderator of every town 
meeting, annual and special, since 1892, chairman of the school 
committee since 1901, and solicitor for the town. COn the 13th 
of December, 1898, Whitaker was married to Anna M. C, daughter 
of Jacob and Barbara Weber. He has had three children ; Richard 
Elbridge, born August 25, 1900; Anna Barbara, born October 23, 
1904, died January, 1905; Grace Isabel, born December 29, 1905. 
He is practicing law with offices in both Boston and Wrentham. 
His home is in Wrentham. C Address: 811 Old South Building, 
Boston, or Wrentham, Massachusetts. 



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j^^HARLES TRISTRAM CHASE WHITCOMB came to us 
IvCv^^ with a strong flavor of the sea. His father was a shipbuilder, 
[■^^^ and the younger Whitcomb was born at Thomastown on 
the Maine coast, July ist, 1861. When he was two years old the 
family moved to Boston, and two years later to Provincetown, 
where his boyhood was spent and where he fitted for college. At 
Amherst he was a member of the Torch and Crown, a sophomore 
Kellogg speaker, and vice-president of the class junior and senior 
years. CThe autumn after graduation he became principal of the 
Sandwich (Massachusetts) Grammar School and a year later 
principal of the Sandwich High School. In 1888 he went to Wake- 
field, Massachusetts, as principal of the high school and in the 
spring of 1895 was elected principal of the new English High School 
at Somerville, Massachusetts, which he organized and opened. 
After eleven years of successful service there he went to Brockton 
in 1906 as head-master of the high school. CHe is vice-president 
of the American Institute of Instruction, vice-president of the Mas- 
sachusetts Teachers' Council of Education, and a prominent Mason. 
He received the degree of A. M. from Amherst in 1886 and a gold 
medal from the St. Louis Exposition in 1905 for work in connection 
with the educational exhibit. CTHe was married July 10, 1889, to 
Charlotte Chaponile Waterman of Sandwich, Massachusetts, and 
has had three children; Rachel Gray, born June 3, 1891 ; John 
Leonard, born September 4, 1894; ^^d Charles Waterman, born 
June 25, 1906, died August 23, 1907. C Address: 81 Ash street, 
Brockton, Massachusetts. 

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IHARLES TERRILL WHITTLESEY was born September 
21, 1858, at Roxbury, Connecticut. He fitted at Parker 
Academy, Woodbury, Connecticut, and at a select school in 
Roxbury. After graduating from Amherst he taught a year in 
South Berkshire Institute, New Marlboro, Massachusetts, and in 
September, 1884, entered Yale Divinity School, from which he 
graduated in 1887. During his theological course he preached three 
months in Faith Chapel, Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1887-8 he 
preached at Carrington, North Dakota, where he was ordained 
October 7, 1887. From 1888 to 1891 he preached at Plymouth 
Church, Portland, Oregon, where he was married. May 27, 1890, to 
Penelope R. Skinner of Rockford, Illinois. The next seven years, 
1891-98, were devoted to church work first at Pendleton, Oregon, 
as pastor of a Congregational church, then as pastor of a Union 
church, then in Union work at Blaine, Washington, and finally in 
more general church work in Eastern Washington and Oregon. 
The seven years following, 1898- 1905, were devoted to teaching — 
two years in the public schools at Adams and Wilbur, Oregon, two 
years in an academy at Roseburg, Oregon, and three years as a 
professor of Latin and Greek in colleges at Dallas and Albany, 
Oregon. Since June, 1908, Charlie has been the pastor of the Pres- 
byterian church at Newport, Oregon. He has four children, Ludella 
Miriam, born April 24, 1891 ; Ralph Edward, June 6, 1895; Roland 
Deming, March 18, 1898; and Raymond Charles, September 24, 
1900. C Address: Newport, Oregon. 



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tT.'ILLIAM CUTLER ATWATER was born July 4, 1861, at 
^5 Brooklyn, New York, and fitted at Adelphi Academy. At 
> the end of freshman year he left college but returned a year 
later and completed the course with '84. CHis first business expe- 
rience after graduation was full of incident. He was employed by 
a banker in New York without agreement and after five weeks was 
dismissed without pay. He sued and got judgment. He then sold 
wrapping paper from samples and in January, 1885, secured work 
with a grain commission house at $5.00 per week. This he left in 
1886 for a position in a coal office, and a year later went to Boston 
as New England agent. In 1889 he started a retail coal business 
in Fall River under the name of William C. Atwater and Company. 
The firm name is still unchanged though the business has grown 
enormously and now has agencies all over the country, the main 
office being in New York. Atwater has mining interests also in 
the Pocahontas coal field in West Virginia and ships on commission 
from other collieries than his own, between one and two million 
tons of coal each year. CHe was married May i, 1889, to Ida W. 
Hay of Easton, Pennsylvania, and has four children: William C. 
Jr., born July 18, 1890 (Amherst '12); John Jacob, May 22, 1893; 
Margaret Hay, September 11, 1894; ^^^ David Hay, November 9, 
1898. CAddress: No. i, Broadway, New York. 



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lONRAD MYRON BARDWELL was born at South Deer- 
field, Massachusetts, October 9, i860. He fitted for college 
at the Northampton High School, entering Amherst as a 
freshman with '83, and joining Psi Upsilon. At the end of sopho- 
more year he decided to abandon his college course and become a 
teacher. CHis first two years in this work were spent at Hayden- 
ville, Massachusetts. In the autumn of 1883 he went west and 
taught at Washington Heights, Illinois, then a suburb of Chicago 
but now a part of the city. The following spring he was elected 
principal at Marengo, Illinois, where he remained three years. 
Following this he was superintendent of schools for four years at 
Tipton, Iowa, and for six years at Canton, Illinois. In the autumn 
of 1896 he went to Aurora, Illinois, as superintendent, where he is 
still engaged. He has held important offices in the Illinois State 
Teachers' Association, and has been for years a member of the 
Board of Directors of the Illinois Pupils' Reading Circle. CHe 
was married June 17, 1886, to Annie Louise Woleben of Marengo, 
Illinois, and has four children: Robert Cousins, born January i, 
1888; Richard Woleben, May 14, 1889; Anna Laura, October 4, 
1893; and Conrad Myron Jr., November i, 1896. He writes that he 
has stopped having photographs taken, but sends a snap-shot of 
himself and his oldest two boys, taken last September, just before 
the boys returned to the University of Illinois, where one is a 
senior and the other a junior. C Address : 60 South Lincoln avenue, 
Aurora, Illinois. 



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VERETT NEXSEN BLANKE was born August 29, 1861, 
i^ at Brooklyn, New York. He writes : "Mirabeau's aphorism 
that we take satisfaction in the misfortunes of our friends, 
encourages this autobiography. I wanted to be a poet; on the 
contrary I am an advertising agent. I left Amherst sophomore 
year, became a police reporter for the "Chicago Daily News," and 
later for the "Chicago Herald." . . . While I was eating supper 
at two o'clock one wintry morning at The Tivoli, with Jimmy 
Elliott, our sporting editor, 'Gentleman' Jerry Dunn took occasion 
to murder him. Without waiting to finish my meal I returned to 
the office, wrote a story of the incident, and took the next train 
for New York. I was editorial writer on the 'Brooklyn Eagle' in 
1887-8, then went to the 'Evening Post.' Enteuthen exelaunei (a 
newspaper man's life is one continual Anabasis) to the 'New York 
Herald.' C December 15, 1897, I married Isabelle Cutler, an inexpe- 
rienced graduate of Smith College. While our gifted classmate, 
Oliver Semple, devotes himself to the Public Service, I am content 
with domestic economy. Mrs. Blanke has aided me in this vocation 
so far as to make October nth the joint birthday of our two chil- 
dren. The cost of celebrating is thus reduced fifty per cent. Donald 
Cutler was born in 1898 and Waldron Everett, 1903. I live in 
Greenwich, Connecticut, and being a suburbanite, my path in life 
is the New York, New Haven, and Heartless Railroad." C Blanke 
is secretary and treasurer of the Lawyers' Advertising Company, 
41 Park Row, New York. 



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HOMAS COCHRAN, the son of Dr. David H. Cochran, 
was born in Albany, New York, May i, 1861. During 
his boyhood, the family moved to Brooklyn, and Tom fitted 
at the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, of which his 
father was then principal. He entered Amherst at the beginning 
of our course and in college was a Chi Psi. At the close of junior 
year, on account of his father's illness, he was obliged to leave and 
assist at the "Poly." Six years he taught there and the next two 
years was in the employ of Lazell, Dalley & Company, wholesale 
druggists, with whom Frank Marsh was then connected. In 1890 
he went into business for himself in the same line, as a member of 
the firm of Henry & Cochran. In 1893 he returned to the "Poly" and 
resumed his work as teacher. He taught four years more at that 
institution, then four years at the DeWitt Clinton High School, and 
m.ore recently at the Girls' High School of Brooklyn, where he is 
now principal. He also taught for two years the evening classes 
at Cooper Union. COn February 23, 1893, Tom was married to 
Emma Belle Hendrickson, of Chicago, who died about three years 
later — August 27, 1896. On June 29, 1898, he was married to Ethel 
Childs, of Bennington, Vermont. They have a boy, Thomas Childs, 
born April 29, 1902. In 1903 Tom received from New York Uni- 
versity the degree of A. B. in recognition of special work which 
he had done. He has written occasional articles on educational 
subjects. C Address: 301 Clermont avenue, Brooklyn, New York. 



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^^^HARLES EDWARD FRENCH entered life in the city of 
Klv^ Cleveland, Ohio, on the 2nd of May, 1859. He attended the 
1^^^ public schools of Cleveland and fitted for college at the 
Cleveland High School, entering Amherst at the beginning of the 
course in the autumn of 1879. At the end of freshman year he left 
Amherst and went to the University of Michigan, where he spent 
the year 1880-81 taking special work in chemistry. C During the 
summer of 1881 he returned to Cleveland, where he began his busi- 
ness career as an office boy in a factory, and in a few years had 
charge of the office. With the American thirst for freedom, he 
broke away from this life in November, 1884, and helped to organize 
the Cleveland Carbon Company, of which he was for three years 
secretary and treasurer. In September, 1887, he sold out his interest 
in this concern and went into the real estate and insurance business 
in Cleveland. During the autumn of 1900 he went to Toledo, Ohio, 
to assist in the construction of the Toledo and Western Railway, 
entering the service of the road as its auditor and purchasing agent, 
with headquarters at Toledo. After seven years of railroading he 
decided that it held no future for him, and in February, 1907, 
resigned his position, returning to the insurance business, in which 
he is now engaged. CHe was married November 12, 1885, to Mary, 
daughter of John and Movina M. Nevins, of Cleveland, Ohio. They 
have no children. CL Address: 526 Ohio building, Toledo, Ohio. 



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RANK JUDSON GOODWIN, known as "Goody," was 
born March 19, 1862, at Rye, New York. When he was still 
young his parents moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he 
fitted for college at the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Insti- 
tute with Pard, Frank Marsh, and several other celebrities. He 
entered Amherst as a freshman in 1879, but was obliged to drop 
out at the end of the first winter term on account of ill health. A 
year later he reentered with '84 and completed the course. He was 
a member of Alpha Delta Phi, an '84 "Olio" editor, and winner of 
the Kellogg and Social Union prizes from '84. In the fall of '84 he 
entered Union Theological Seminary, and after remaining out 
another year to recover from the effects of some preaching which he 
did in Connecticut, he graduated in 1888. In October of the same 
year he was called to the pastorate of the Congregational Church 
of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, where he remained eleven years. He 
then went to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and in April, 1899, was 
installed pastor of the Pawtucket Congregational Church. While 
at Glen Ridge he published "A Harmony of the Life of St. Paul," 
through the American Tract Society, of New York. He was presi- 
dent of the Rhode Island Congregational Club, 1906-08. COn 
November 11, 1891, Goodwin was married to Grace Haywood Duf- 
field, of Bloomfield, New Jersey. He has two daughters: Mary 
Duffield, born March 11, 1899, and Faith Halloway, born January 
18, 1904. C Address: 33 Cottage street, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. 



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DWARD BARTON HERRICK was born at Redding, Con- 
necticut, August 9, i860, the son of Rev. William D. Her- 
rick, of Amherst '57. He prepared for college at Gushing 
Academy, Ashburnham, Massachusetts, and at Williston Seminary, 
Easthampton, entering Amherst as a freshman in 1879. In college 
he was a Chi Phi. At the end of freshman year he decided to 
abandon his college work and study medicine. With this in view 
he entered the medical department of the University of the City 
of New York, where he graduated in the spring of 1884 with the 
degree of M. D. He then served for eighteen months as house 
physician at Ward's Island Insane Asylum and went to Ottawa, 
Kansas, to practice his profession, but after about eight months 
returned to New York and a little later opened a private asylum 
at Amherst for the treatment of nervous diseases. After two years 
of this work he went to Parker, Arizona, thence to Tacoma, Wash- 
ington, where he spent two years; thence, in January, 1893, to San 
Francisco. Here his health failed and after traveling somewhat 
extensively in the South he returned to New England and practiced 
for several years at Amherst and Lynn, Massachusetts. CHe 
writes: "Since 1902 I have been in specialty work in Boston and 
New York City and for nearly three years past have been located 
in Buffalo, New York, which is my residence at the present time.'* 
Herrick was married November 23, 1885, to Emma Church Farwell, 
of Boston. He has no children. CI Address : 550 Main street, Buf- 
falo, New York. 



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RANK TUCKER HOPKINS, the son of Dr. Lewis S. and 
Frances (Washburn) Hopkins, was born at Northampton, 
Massachusetts, on the 8th day of September, 1857. ^^ went 
through the public schools, prepared for college at Saxton's River, 
Vermont, and entered Amherst in 1879 as a resident of Bridge- 
water, Massachusetts. CHaving determined to follow medicine 
as a profession, and wishing to shorten the period of his prepara- 
tion, he left college at the end of junior year and in the following 
autumn went to New York City, where he matriculated at the Col- 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University). He com- 
pleted a three years' course in that institution and graduated in 
1885 with the degree of M. D. From 1885 to 1887 he served on the 
surgical staff of Roosevelt Hospital, New York City. The follow- 
ing year he served as house physician at the New York Foundling's 
Hospital. From 1888 to 1895 he was engaged in private practice at 
Fishkill-on-the-Hudson. In 1895 he went abroad and for two years 
pursued special work in Dresden and Berlin. Returning to this 
country he established himself in New York City. He is at present 
connected with the Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 
the Manhattan Eye and Ear Infirmary, the New York Eye and Ear 
Infirmary, and St. Luke's. His special department is diseases of 
the eye and ear, upon various phases of which he has written a 
number of monographs. Hopkins was married in Gottingen, Ger- 
many, August 20, 1901, to Emily Linnard Neilson. He has no 
children. C[ Address: 200 West 113th street New York City. 



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ILLIAM TRAVERS 
JEROME belongs to 
both '82 and '83. He 
entered college with '82, but 
dropped out early in freshman 
year because of ill health, re- 
entering the next autumn with 
'83. Jerome was born in New 
York City, April 18, 1859, and 
was fitted for Amherst at Wil- 
liston Seminary. He left col- 
lege in 1 88 1, completed the 
course at the Columbia Law 
School in 1884, and began prac- 
tice in New York. In 1888 he 
was married to Lavinia Howe. 
C[His entry into politics came 
about — curiously enough in the 
light of subsequent events — 
through Richard Croker, at 
whose behest he was made dep- 
uty assistant district attorney 
Q in 1888. The appointment came, 

'fjn^^^nAA<A/^^S^^^^'^^^^^^^ however without any political 

^ pledges and without any affili- 

ation with Tammany Hall. Under the lax administration of that 
day the deputy assistant — usually a very obscure officer — soon 
began to overtop his associates. He personally conducted impor- 
tant trials and returned to private practice in 1890 with a greatly 
enhanced legal reputation. During four years Jerome was active 
in pressing legislation at Albany against crime and graft in New 
York. In 1894 with his former colleague, ex-Assistant District 
Attorney (afterward Recorder) Goff, he took the field in an anti- 
Tammany campaign, which was successful. Iif 1895 he was 
appointed Justice of the City Court of Special Sessions, an office 
which he filled with credit until 1902. In 1901 he was nominated 
for District Attorney on the ticket with Seth Low. He took the 
stump and his "whirlwind campaign" of New York City became 
the political sensation of the day, carrying both himself and Low 
to a notable victory over Tammany. His energetic action in 
restraint of gambling and other vices caused the politicians to 
refuse him renomination in 1905; he was thereupon nominated on 
an independent ticket, and with another vigorous personal campaign 
won the election in the midst of unusual excitement. His pending 
term expires in 1909. C Jerome's extraordinary gifts of political 
campaigning and of public leadership did not exhibit themselves 
in his college days, but those who knew him well in his brief career 
at Amherst will remember his fondness for the subtleties of parlia- 
mentary debate and the incisiveness of his speech. He has one 
son, William Travers, Jr., born July 15, 1890. C Address: 535 
West 148th street. New York. 



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fEORGE FRANK JEWETT was born at Pepperell, Massa- 
chusetts, March 19, 1858, and fitted at the Bridgewater 
Normal School. He entered Amherst in the fall of 1879, 
but left at the end of freshman year. CHe writes: "I went South, 
taught two years in New Orleans and two years in Lexington, 
Kentucky. During my teaching in Kentucky I got married. I 
was principal of a large grammar school in Lexington. In a fit of 
disgust I resigned, pulled up stakes, and struck Harvard the fifth 
of July, 1884. During that summer I attended the Harvard Sum- 
mer School. In the fall I remained and two years later graduated 
from Harvard, in 1886. I then taught in the Cambridge English 
High School, the Cambridge Latin School, was principal of the 
Marlboro High School, the Putnam (Connecticut) High School, 
head master of Rutgers College Grammar School, New Brunswick, 
New Jersey; principal of the Rayen High School, Youngstown, 
Ohio (ten years), and assistant principal of Lasell Seminary, 
Auburndale, Massachusetts. Six years ago I founded the Mount 
Ida School for Girls. The school has four connected buildings, and 
will accommodate seventy young ladies. This year we sent four- 
teen students to Vassar, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Wellesley, and 
Radcliffe." CJewett was married at Fremont. Ohio, June 8, 1882, 
to Abigail Burgess Fay. They have had three children, two of 
whom are living: Edith Mehitable. born May 20, 1883; Edward, 
born May 20, 1883, died July 4, 1883; Helen Fay, born November 
5, 1888. CI Address: 115 Bellevue street, Newton, Massachusetts. 

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^^^LIAS BLISS JONES, known as ''Fatty," entered the flesh 
-j^^s at Norwich, Connecticut, January 15, 1863, and fitted at 
^^^ 1 the Norwich Free Academy. He left Amherst at the end 



of freshman year and entered the Second National Bank, of Nor- 
wich. He was in the banking business thirteen years — in Norwich 
('8o-'82), in Boston, National Bank of the Redemption ( 82-'86). 
and State National Bank ('86-'89). He then became general agent 
for the Atlas Guarantee Company, and in '94 went into life insur- 
ance. Since 1901 he has been in the bond business, first in Boston^ 
then in Chicago, and finally in Philadelphia. The firm is now E. 
B. Jones and Company. CHe writes: "As those who know me 
will remember, I easily led my class in Amherst, provided you 
looked at the right end of the class first; but I am fortunate in 
having my record expunged by the success of my children. My 
oldest boy is now entering his junior year at Swarthmore, having 
won the entrance prize and the honor scholarships freshman and 
sophomore years. My youngest son is about to enter, having won 
the same scholarship. My second son is also among the first two 
or three in his class. You see what a mother can do for a family." 
CJanuary 23, 1887, he married Belle Blodgett, of Newtonville, 
Massachusetts. Their children are: Gurdon Blodgett, May 20, 
1888; Alister Ross, January 9, 1890; Alden Bliss, September 3, 
1891 ; Pauline Fales, June 7, 1893 (died July 29, 1896) ; Miriam, 
April 29, 1895; Isabel Fales, April 29, 1904. d Address: Land 
Title Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



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^^gHE KIRBY BROTHERS were with us only during sopho- 
M^V^ more year. They were from Nichols, New York, where 
F^aa^l W. D. was born March 24, 1859, and N. H. April 3, 1861. 
Both were D. K. E.'s. 

ATHANIEL HARRIS KIRBY, after leaving Amherst 
studied medicine in New York, spent a year as interne in 
Chambers Street Hospital and several months as surgeon 
on an Italian steamer. He then practiced in Binghamton, New 
York; Saginaw, Michigan; and Concord, Massachusetts. At Con- 
cord he married, June 19, 1895, Rebecca Billings Johnson. From 
1898 to 1901 he was lecturer on skin diseases in the medical school 
of the University of Denver. Mrs. Kirby's health failing, they 
returned east, where she died at Concord, December 29, 1901. 
Kirby has since practiced in Milford, Boston, Hartford, Philadel- 
phia, and Greenwich. C Address: Greenwich, Connecticut. 

f^ILLIAM DWIGHT KIRBY went first to Waverly, New 
York, as assistant cashier of the Home Savings Bank. 
Thence, in 1887, he returned to Nichols and took charge of 
a flour mill. In 1890 the mill burned. Kirby went to Concord, 
Massachusetts, where N. H. was then practicing, and obtained a 
business position. Later he returned to Nichols, went to Lester- 
shire, New York, and afterwards to Niagara Falls, where he is 
engaged with the Carborundum Company. He married Eunice 
Dunham at Nichols, June 3, 1890, and has a daughter, Barbara, born 
April 30, 1891. C Address: 1807 Main street, Niagara Falls, N. Y. 

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fILLIAM C. KITCHIN was born in St. George, Ontario, 
September 7, 1855. He writes: "I attended high school 
at Oxford, Michigan, and graduated from the Preparatory 
Department of Oberlin College. The fall of '79 I betook myself 
to Amherst, but left during freshman year and went to Syracuse 
University, where I managed to secure my A. B. with the class of 
'82. [He took honors in history and philosophy, was Commence- 
ment orator and a Phi Beta Kappa.]. A few days before gradua- 
tion I was married to Fannie Carlotta Furbeck, and that summer 
my wife and I started for Japan, where the next six years were 
spent in educational work under the Methodist Episcopal Board. 
While there I pursued a course of graduate study and secured the 
degrees of A. M. and Ph. D. from Syracuse. I also wrote for 
American magazines and brought out several Japanese books. 
I returned to America in 1888, and prepared five text-books on 
English for use in Japan. I also wrote two novels and many short 
stories and attended graduate classes at Harvard. In 1892 I went 
to the University of Vermont as professor of Romance Languages. 
Incessant study finally broke my health. I resigned my professor- 
ship in 1900, and since then have been General Agent of the Con- 
necticut General Life Insurance Company. I have found the out- 
door work a health restorer, and have returned somewhat to 
authorship. The first of a series of Biblical novels will appear in 
1909." Kitchin has four children (See page 187). C Address: 85 
Parker Building, or 32 Rugby Road, Schenectady, New York. 



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JI^^OHANNES KRIKORIAN, the son of a pastor of the 
jJ^Mj Armenian church, was born at Aintab, Turkey, February 3, 
Sv^^ji^ 1855. He left Amherst at the end of sophomore year and 
went to Yale Theological Seminary. Graduating there in 1883 
he was invited to the Central Turkey College at Aintab, as pro- 
fessor of Philosophy and Psychology. CHe writes: "In 1888 
I married the daughter of a Greek pastor in Broussa. We had six 
children, one daughter and five sons. One of the boys died in 
1898. During the great Armenian Massacres of 1895 I was at 
Aintab, but did not suffer much. In 1898 I visited the United 
States for the second time, and spent one year at Yale, taking 
Psychology. In 1902 I was ordained at Aintab as an Evangelist. 
I taught in the Central Turkey College until 1902, when I was 
invited to Constantinople to the editorship of a Turkish religious 
paper, published by the American Missionaries. I am still in that 
work, also preaching on Sundays in the Chapel of the Bible House. 
During all this time we were greatly crippled in our work by the gov- 
ernment. Great was, however, our rejoicing when on the 24th of 
last July constitutional government was declared in Turkey, and 
all classes of people were declared equal in a free country. So we 
are here as free as the people in America. And this great revolu- 
tion is accomplished without bloodshed. We have, indeed, great 
things to accomplish yet, but we are glad to breathe now the air of 
freedom!" CE Address: Bible House, Constantinople, Turkey. 



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ILLIAM HARTFORD LEONARD, the son of Rev.Hart- 
ford P. Leonard, was born in Manhattan, Kansas, Novem- 
ber 10, i860. The family moved to Taunton, Massachu- 
setts, during his boyhood and he fitted for college at the Taunton 
High School, entering Amherst as a freshman in the autumn of '79. 
At the end of junior year, in June, 1882, he left college, and the 
following October entered Boston University Law School, from 
which he graduated in June, 1884, with the degree of LL. B. He 
at once entered upon the practice of law in Boston and passed 
through the experiences common to young attorneys. He wrote 
cheerfully, however, in 1888 that he was able to earn "at least two 
meals almost every day and sometimes three on Sundays." CTOn 
the fifth of May, 1886, he was married to Charlotte A. Richardson 
of Taunton, Massachusetts. For a time he made his home in 
Taunton, going into Boston every day; in the fall of 1887 he 
moved his penates to Quincy, and in 1891 to Braintree, where he 
still resides. His office is in Boston. Leonard has had five children, 
four of whom are living: Perl Richardson, born April 11, 1887; 
Hartford, born July 23, 1888; Curtis Woodbury, born November 
22, 1891 ; Charlotte A., born November 22, 1893, died December 13, 
1896; Dorothy, born January 22, 1896. His oldest boy, Hartford, is 
now a sophomore at Dartmouth. Leonard reports the fact with 
some hesitation, saying that it "would be obviously improper to 
put into an Amherst book." C Address: 25 Equitable Building, 
Boston, Massachusetts. 



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REDERIC BRAINERD MITCHELL was with us only 
during freshman year. He was our first class president, 
sang with the Glee Club, and took the third Social Union 
prize for public speaking. Born in Bristol, Connecticut, June 2, 
i860, he went at an early age to New Britain, Connecticut, where 
he attended school and fitted for college. CL After leaving Amherst he 
was for two years principal of the high school at Easthampton, 
Connecticut, and two years at Thompsonville, Connecticut. He 
then entered the Yale Law School, from which he graduated in 
1885. The next four years he was principal of the Thomaston 
(Connecticut) Academy. While there he married, December 23, 
1885, Harriet Allyn Houston of Thompsonville, a Mount Holyoke 
graduate, who was his assistant in the Thompsonville High School. 
In 1889 he returned to his old home in New Britain, engaged in the 
insurance business, practiced law and was for a time agent for the 
Hare Railroad Signal. His oldest son, John Houston, was born 
August 29, 1890. A few years later Mrs. Mitchell died. Mitchell 
married again about 1901 and in March, 1903, a second son, Howard 
Hooker, was born. He now has a daughter also. For several 
years Mitchell has traveled through the South — first for the Parker 
Gun Company of Meriden, and more recently for the Stanley Rule 
and Level Company of New Britain. He has been deaf to all 
inquiries, but these facts have been gained through Charlie Adams, 
who also loans the photograph. It was taken about 1905. 
C Address: 65 Tinsley avenue, Meriden, Connecticut. 



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Norton absolutely refuses 
to furnish or to sit for a 
photograph although a cer- 
tain justice of the Supreme 
Bench of Massachusetts 
has been after him person- 
ally and has used his most 
persuasive eloquence. 




^ARRY ADAMS NORTON was in college a short time 
during freshman year. He was born in New York City, 
on the eighteenth of September, i860, the son of Rev. 
George and M. L. Ferguson. His surname, Ferguson, was changed 
by legal process when he was five years old, and he took the name 
of his maternal grandfather. He fitted for college at the Edgar- 
town (Massachusetts) High School, and entered Amherst with the 
class of '82 but dropped out and reentered with '83 in the fall of 
1879. C After leaving college in 1880 he was for ten years a rail- 
road telegrapher, stationed successively in New York City, on Cape 
Cod and at Martha's Vineyard. Then he spent two years at 
Colgate University with the classes of '94, '95 and '96 and attended 
a course of lectures at the University Medical College, New York 
City. He writes that since then he has been a farmer, a shipping 
clerk, a census enumerator, and a loom painter — -following the 
latter occupation for ten years. CHe was married June 15, 1881, to 
Millie Norris Bacon, daughter of Captain Edward B. Bacon of 
Worcester, Massachusetts, and has had four children: Richard 
Allen, born October 3, 1882; Henry Edward Adams, born Sep- 
tember 28, 1884; James Arthur, born July 27, 1886, and Edward 
Bacon, born August 8, 1887, died August 9, 1888. His first son, 
Richard, was married in the spring of 1907 and a small boy, James 
Allen Norton, came on February 3, 1908, to invest the elder Norton 
with the dignity of grandfatherhood. CAddress: 14 Kingsbury 
street, Worcester, Massachusetts. 



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j^WjDWARD STEVENS ORR was born in Amherst, October 
^^^^ 5, 1859, fitted at the Amherst High School, and spent one 
■-^^1 year in college. He was a Kellogg speaker and won the 
second Social Union oratorical prize. CHe writes: "After leaving 
Amherst I was connected successively with Charles P. Burr and 
Company of St. Louis; the Wing Flour Mill Company of Charles- 
ton, Illinois, as president; W. A. Orr Shoe Company, St. Louis, 
as vice-president; Orr and Lindsley Shoe Company, as president; 
W. G. & St. L. Railway, as president; B. & O. and B. & O. S. W. 
Railway, as General Agent at St. Louis; Missouri Trust Company, 
as president; also with the St. Louis Transfer Company, Third 
National Bank, and G. B. M. C. Mining Company, as director, 
I was treasurer of the St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall Asso- 
ciation, and a member of the first Board of Directors of the Lou- 
isiana Purchase Exposition. A severe attack of the grippe in 1902 
culminated in a complete nervous collapse, and the ensuing five 
years were spent in paying the penalty for burning the candle at 
both ends. With health restored, in July, '07, I accepted an open- 
ing in the Carleton Dry Goods Company, which I have found con- 
genial. I married in 1889 [Mary Agnes Orr of St. Louis] and 
have since been known among our friends as 'Mary Orr's husband.' 
We have three children; Edward Burr, age fourteen; Katherine, 
eight; and Mary Belle, six. We live in a good old home, full of 
sunshine, which no '83 man can get by without coming in, if I 
know it." C Address : 3223 Lafayette avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 

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LBERT RIPLEY PALMER is distinctly an Amherst 
product. His father, Dwight W. Palmer, and his father's 
store in the historic Palmer's Block are remembered by all 
Amherst men of the '8o's and long before. Albert Palmer was born 
in Amherst August loth, i860, went through the public schools and 
fitted for college at De Veaux College and at the Amherst High 
School, entering our class in 1879 at the beginning of the course. 
In September, 1881, as we were entering upon our junior year, he 
decided to give up the idea of completing the course, and, instead, 
to go at once into business. With this in view he entered his 
father's store, where he remained a witness though not a partici- 
pant in '83's concluding performances. In the spring of '85 his 
father became president of the Smith Charities at Northampton 
and left to Albert the management of the store. Becoming dis- 
satisfied with the limited future which a local business in a small 
New England town — even such a town as Amherst — offered him, 
he sold out and in December of the same year went to Chicago, 
where he entered the employ of Marshall Field and Company as a 
salesman in their retail carpet department. He attended strictly 
to business and has advanced steadily, becoming, in 1898, assistant 
manager of the department, and in 1908, manager. CHe was 
married August 20, 1903, to Georgia J., daughter of Hon. H. C. 
Barnett, of Franklin, Indiana. C Address: Care of Marshall Field 
and Company, Retail Department, State, Washington, Randolph 
and Wabash, Chicago. 



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RANCIS WRIGHT PERRY was born in 1859 and entered 
college from Stratford, Connecticut. He writes : "You will 
probably best remember me as the pale fellow who, during 
the opening term, pounded the piano for class drill in the gym. 
Therein lay the secret of my downfall so far as the attainment of a 
college course was concerned. Pecuniary considerations forced me 
to leave college temporarily (as I thought then), and I took up 
teaching as a means of replenishing my resources. Meantime I 
devoted such leisure as I had to the study of music and when in 
1884 circumstances were such that I might have returned to college 
I decided to take a musical course instead. I entered the New 
England Conservatory of Music in Boston and graduated in the 
class of 1888. For nearly fifteen years I was engaged in teaching 
voice culture in Boston, meanwhile conducting the music in several 
of the larger churches. I invested some of my surplus funds in 
the Sunny South with a view to having a place where, in later life, 
I might escape the northern winters. My investments proved 
lucrative beyond my expectations so that in the late fall of 1902 I 
bade a cheerful farewell to New England and since that time have 
called Florida my home. Our family consists of one little boy less 
than a year old." CPerry married, in 1882, Georgiana Woolson 
of Chicopee, Massachusetts. She died in 1885. He married, in 
1894, Thora E. Peterson of Revere Beach, Massachusetts. In 
college Perry was a Chi Phi. C Address: Alva, Florida. 



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^^^LAYTON DAVID SMITH, the son of David and Laura 
fvCv^^ A. Smith, was born at Chester, Massachusetts, on the 31st of 
[•^^^ March, 1857, ^^d is still a resident of the town of his nativity. 
He was generally known in college as "C. D." Having acquired 
the usual amount of knowledge offered in the public shcools, he 
went to Williston Seminary, Easthampton, and prepared for col- 
lege. He entered Amherst at the beginning of the course, in Sep- 
tember, 1879, but dropped out during junior year and remained at 
home until September, 1883, when he went to Springfield, Massa- 
chusetts, and took up the study of law in the office of Edward H. 
Lathrop. C[In June of the following year he was admitted to the 
bar, returned to Chester, and has since that time been practicing 
his profession. In 1888 he became convinced that it is not good 
for a man to live alone and on October loth of that year entered 
a matrimonial partnership with Edith M. Rude of Huntington, 
Massachusetts. They have two children, Helen E., born March 31, 
1892, and Dorcas, born August 24, 1899. He writes: "I had hoped 
you would publish the class book without any word from me, but 
as you insist on hearing my little verse, here goes: Have written 
no poems, received no honors, neither fame nor fortune has come 
within hailing distance. Have had fair success in the practice of 
law. Have held and am now holding various public offices with 
but poor satisfaction to myself and I presume to the public. The 
photograph, my wife says, flatters me." H Address: Chester, 
Massachusetts. 

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ra^nOSEPH WHEELWRIGHT was born at Byfield, Massa- 
^^4y chusetts, October 2, i860. He fitted at Phillips Andover, 
i^si^ and entered Amherst with the class of '82. During fresh- 
man year he left college on account of ill health. He returned and 
entered '83 sophomore year, but again his health failed. A third 
time he entered, joining the class of '85, during its sophomore year 
and again was obliged to abandon his plans. He then followed 
an out-of-door life at Byfield for eight years and in 1891, feeling 
that his health was established, entered Andover Theological Sem- 
inary to prepare for the ministry. He spent two years in the 
seminary, — then supplied the Congregational church at Rochester, 
Massachusetts, from October, 1893, to December, 1895, and the 
Danvers (Massachusetts) church from December, 1895, to Sep- 
tember, 1896. He was acting pastor at South Byfield until the 
following summer (1897) when he was ordained, and installed 
pastor of the Congregational church at Hebron, New Hampshire. 
There he remained two years. Then followed pastorates at Green- 
field, Massachusetts (1899-01), and Prescott, Massachusetts, 
(1902-3). In 1903 he was again obliged to give up work. He 
retired to Byfield until 1905, when he became pastor of the church 
at Tamworth, New Hampshire, where he is still engaged. CHe 
was married January 22, 1884, to Alice R. Upton of Salem, Massa- 
chusetts, and has one child, Grace Adams, born April 3, 1885. She 
is now married and a mother, making Wheelwright a grandfather. 
C Address: Tamworth, New Hampshire. 



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^^^URDON WALTER WILLIAMS, known in college as 
l^^^f "Smudge" Williams, was born December 3, 1859, at Pitts- 
2^^^ burg, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools, pre- 
pared for college at the Newell Institute in his native city, and 
entered Hamilton College as a freshman with the class of 1881. 
After completing his first year he was obliged to give up study on 
account of trouble with his eyes, but returned to Hamilton a year 
later and spent the year 1879-80 in special work. He then decided 
to go to Amherst, and entered our class as a sophomore in the fall 
of 1880. In college he was a Psi U. After only a year at Amherst 
he went to Boston, spent a year at the Boston University Law 
School and then returned to Pittsburg to continue his studies in the 
law office of his brother, N. S. Williams. The remainder of his 
career is best described in his own words. He says: "I was duly 
admitted to practice at the Bar of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 
on January 10, 1885. Since then I have continued to practice law 
in said county up to the present time. The name of the firm of 
which I am a member is Williams and Edwards, and our offices 
are in the Berger Building, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. I received 
the degree of B. A. from Hamilton College in 1904, nunc pro tunc 
as of 1 88 1. Thus *doth the laurel hide the bald brow it hath 
blighted.' I am also a bachelor in another sense, having no guard- 
ian angel to preside over my life." C Address : Berger Building, 
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 



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lEORGE WILSON 
FOSTER, nicknamed 
'Funny Foster," has re- 
jected all requests for data. 
He came from Merrimack, New 
Hampshire, as a freshman, 
played baseball on the class 
nine, and football on the class 
eleven. The picture is from our 
freshman class group, and the 
early autograph from the mus- 
ter roll of the Amherst "Gar- 
field and Arthur Battalion." 
"Funny" left sophomore year. 
A brother, J. H. Foster of 
Reeds Ferry, New Hampshire, 
says he is now traveling for a 
book firm and gives his address 
as 21 Devonshire street, Port- 
land, Maine. A registered letter 
brings this signature on the 
receipt : 





lEVI SMITH was born 
in California, March 3, 
1861. He fitted in Am- 
herst at the Mount Pleasant 
Institute and entered college 
freshman fall as a resident 
of Belleville, Nevada. He 
left during sophomore year, 
went West, and for some 
years was a mining engi- 
neer, but more recently has 
been in Spokane, in the tobacco 
business, with his brother, 
Frank W. Smith. Levi has 
maintained a dignified silence 
regarding himself. His uncle, 
A. R. Wilson, of South Hadley, 
Massachusetts, has given us 
part of the information and the 
rest has been supplied by citi- 
zens of Spokane, one of whom 
writes: "Smith is a man of 
sterling character and well 
thought of here in Spokane." 
Address: 309 Sixth Avenue, 
Spokane, Washington. 



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Hugh McKee Jones 

Born September 4, 1862 

Died October 3, 1881 

Age 19 years 



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THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE 

aUGH McKEE JONES was in college only until the close 
j of sophomore year, but long enough to make a distinct 
^ impression on the class. He was born September 4, 1862, 
at the country home of his grandmother in Jessamine County, near 
Lexington, Kentucky. His father, Captain Stephen E. Jones, a 
graduate of Amherst, was on the staff of General Thomas during 
the Civil War. At its close he moved to Louisville, where he 
engaged in the practice of law and where McKee's boyhood and 
youth were spent. McKee's mother was a daughter of Colonel 
William R. McKee, a graduate of West Point, who commanded 
the Second Kentucky regiment in the war with Mexico, and who 
fell at the battle of Buena Vista. McKee was named for his uncle. 
Lieutenant Hugh McKee, of the United States Navy, who was 
killed in 1871 while leading a charge against a Korean fort. Jones 
was prepared for college in Louisville under the direction of Pro- 
fessor Jason Cheriault. In college he was a member of Psi Upsilon. 
He died at his home in Harrodsburgh, October 3, 1881. CThe 
"Louisville Courier- Journal" said of him : ''Young Jones was a boy 
of no ordinary parts. His mind was clear and strong; his ambition 
high and his application remarkable. All who knew him expected 
great things of him. He had just those qualities which won and 
fixed the love of his associates; he was as kind and gentle as a 
woman, and yet immovable where any principle was involved. 
Dying at the age of nineteen many high hopes die with him." 

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Harry Irving Reed 

Born June 20, 1860 

Died November 29, 1883 

Age 23 years 



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^ARRY IRVING REED was born on the 20th of June, i860, 
at East Weymouth, Massachusetts. He entered college as 
a freshman with '83, in the fall of 1879, but was obliged to 
drop out during sophomore year on account of ill health. After 
recuperating at his home during the remainder of that year he 
determined to take up the study of medicine and in the fall of 1881 
entered the Medical Department of Boston University. He com- 
pleted his first year in the medical school, but early in the second 
year he was again obliged to abandon his work. Thinking that a 
change of climate would benefit him he went to Arizona the follow- 
ing February. It soon became evident that he was a victim of 
consumption. He continued to grow worse and came home to East 
Weymouth in May, where he gradually failed until his death 
November 29, 1883. CEarly in 1883, before going to Arizona, he 
was married to Hattie L. Seymour of Hingham, Massachusetts, 
who with a son, Harold W. Reed, born after the father's death, now 
resides in that town. Reed was buried in North Weymouth, Massa- 
chusetts. CThe following is an extract from resolutions passed 
by the class: "We desire to express both our sorrow at the loss 
and our appreciation of what he was. We remember his modest 
yet cordial spirit, his fidelity to duty, his Christian temper and 
bearing. Though his later years on earth were clouded by a long 
struggle with disease we believe there has come to him the victory 
and the peace of those who have entered upon eternal years." 



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Scott Smith Silliman 

Born January 15, 1855 

Died May 29, 1884 

Age 29 years 





COTT SMITH SILLIMAN was born at Stamford, New 
York, January 15, 1855. He fitted at the Stamford High 
School and entered Amherst with the class of '82 in the fall 
of 1878. At the end of his sophomore year he was obliged to leave 
college. He remained at home two years, meanwhile keeping up his 
studies sufficiently to enable him to cover one year's full college 
work. He then returned to Amherst, in the fall of 1882, and entered 
the class of '83, which was then beginning its senior year. He grad- 
uated with the class the following June. C After graduation he went 
to New York and entered the Columbia Law School. The following 
spring just as he had finished his first year's work he was taken 
suddenly ill. He partly recovered and started for his home in Stam- 
ford but was not strong enough to make the journey and died at 
Kingston, New York, May 29, 1884, before reaching his destination. 
CAt the class reunion in 1888 the following resolutions were 
passed : "We hereby bear our testimony to the purity and strength 
of his Christian character and to the earnestness with which he was 
entering upon the work of his life. That life ended abruptly at its 
beginning. He did not live to see the results in active work of the 
years he had spent in study and training. But we believe that, in 
the plan of God, nothing that is good is ever lost, and that some- 
where in God's universe our friend is completing in joyful, efficient 
service the life he began among us." 



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George P. Ellison 

Born April 6, 1859 

Died May 4, 1888 

Age 29 years 



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EORGE P. ELLISON, known as "Billy" Ellison, was bom 
at East Creek, Herkimer County, New York, April 6, 1859. 
During his youth his family moved to Utica, New York. 
He fitted for college at the Utica Free Academy and entered 
Amherst with the class of '82, but, being obliged to remain out for 
a time, reentered with '83. In college he was a Delta Kappa Epsilon. 
CSoon after graduating he decided to make banking his profession. 
While waiting for an opening he spent the winter of 1883-4 with 
an insurance firm in Utica. The following April he secured the 
position toward which he had been looking and entered the Oneida 
National Bank of Utica. He worked hard for two years, and in 
the spring of 1886 the close application began to tell upon him. 
When he attended the reunion at Amherst in June of that year it 
was noticed that he was not well. In the summer he had an attack 
of malarial fever. Though he recovered sufficiently to return to his 
work he did not regain his strength and when in October a severe 
cold settled upon him it found him an easy prey. In December 
he resigned his position and sought a change of climate. The late 
winter and spring of 1887 were spent in Thomasville, Georgia, the 
summer and autumn in the Adirondacks, but he made no improve- 
ment and the next winter was too ill to leave his room. He died 
of consumption the following spring. May 4, 1888. Ellison's death 
was keenly felt by the class. His unfailing good nature and kindli- 
ness made everyone his friend, while his frank optimism inspired 
all who came in contact with him. 



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ARCUS MARVIN MASON was born October 7, 1861, at 
Winchendon, Massachusetts, and fitted for college at Gush- 
ing Academy, Ashburnham, Massachusetts. At Amherst 
he was a member of Chi Phi, P. Q. and "E. Pi D." CAfter gradu- 
ating in '83 he engaged in business with his father at Winchendon, 
but the following spring went West, locating at Cheyenne, Wyom- 
ing. Here he engaged in the cattle business and soon became secre- 
tary and manager of the Wyoming Meat Company, The Snow 
Cattle Company, The Converse Cattle Company, and The Wyoming 
Land and Live Stock Company, having headquarters in Cheyenne. 
CHe was married November 12, 1885, to Edyth Haywood Isham 
of New York City. In December, 1 891, he returned East and settled 
in Boston as cashier of the Investment Trust Company of America. 
The following summer he went to Kansas in the interests of his 
company and on his return stopped at Niagara Falls July 24th, with 
several friends who had accompanied him. As they were making 
the passage through the Cave of the Winds Marcus lost his footing 
on the slippery rocks and before the guide could seize him had 
gone under the falls. His body was recovered and taken to Win- 
chendon, where it now rests in Riverside Cemetery. C Marcus's 
character was one of rare charm. Our feeling toward him was well 
expressed by Joe Kingman at the decennial in '93. He said, "We 
loved Marcus for the manliness which characterized him. We 
admired his good judgment, his thorough-going common sense. We 
appreciated his consideration and thoughtfulness for others, his 
true gentlemanliness." 

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ALTER PIERCE HENDRICKSON was born at New 
Bedford, Massachusetts, October 7, 1861. He received his 
early education in his native city, preparing for college at 
the New Bedford High School, and entering Amherst in the fall of 
1879. He was a Chi Phi. During Sophomore year he left college 
and went to New York to study medicine. Entering the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, he took up his work with enthusiasm but 
failing health obliged him to abandon it. COn January 14, 1888, 
he was married to Jennie Topping Kirk of New York City, and 
with his wife went south in search of a milder climate. He located 
first in Tennessee, then in Florida, and later at Demorest, Georgia, 
where he became treasurer of the Demorest Mining and Improve- 
ment Company. Receiving no permanent benefit from the southern 
climate he returned to Massachusetts in September, 1892, and went 
to Pittsfield hoping that the change of air would prove helpful. 
His expectations, however, were not realized. He continued to 
lose strength and finally upon the advice of his physician set out in 
October for Southern California. The fatigue of this journey 
proved too great a tax and he died at Pasadena from a complication 
of heart and lung trouble November 13, 1892, about two weeks 
after his arrival. CThe "New Bedford Evening Standard" in an 
obituary spoke of Hendrickson as "a man whom every one liked 
and respected. He was very reticent in speech but a splendid 
scholar, invariably pleasant and peculiarly adapted to the profession 
he had chosen." 



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JAMES WHITE ALLEN, or "Jim" Allen, was born October 
I, i860, at Worcester, Massachusetts. He received his ele- 
mentary education in the public schools of that city and 
graduated from the high school in 1879, entering Amherst the same 
fall. He was a Delta Kappa Epsilon. CAt the end of Sophomore 
year he left college, and the following November took a position 
as bookkeeper and cashier for the "Worcester Evening Gazette." 
Here he remained until the summer of 1892, when he went to 
Zanzibar as clerk for Arnold, Cheney & Company of New York, 
well-known ivory importers. A year later he became the company's 
agent in Zanzibar and also acted as United States Consul. He 
made a study of the native tribes and gave valuable assistance to 
William Astor Chanler in the collection of material for his book, 
"Through Jungle and Desert," — a service which Mr. Chanler grace- 
fully recognizes in his preface. In 1895 at the expiration of his 
engagement Allen returned, though offered an interest in the ivory 
firm if he would remain abroad. About a year later he entered 
into partnership with Colonel Samuel E. Winslow of Worcester, in 
the banking business, the firm name being Winslow and Allen. 
CIn December, 1897, he was attacked by pneumonia and after a 
week's illness died on the morning of Sunday, the 26th. Allen was 
a member of the Worcester Club, Quinsigamond Boat Club and 
Commonwealth Club, and was at one time in the Worcester Light 
Infantry. He stood high in business circles and had a multitude 
of friends. 



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|OHN MACKIE JOHNSON, or "Johnnie," as he was called 
in college, was born at Norwich, Connecticut, December 6, 
1859. He attended the public schools and fitted at the Nor- 
wich Free Academy. In college he was a Chi Psi, an "E. Pi D.," 
a member of the Glee Club and "Olio" Board. He completed the 
course and, though he did not graduate with the class, he received 
his A. B. ten years later. In the fall of '83 he went into business 
with his father in Norwich and upon his father's death four years 
later assumed responsibilities which rarely fall to the lot of so 
young a man. He became president of the Uncas National Bank, 
treasurer of the Norwich Free Academy, secretary of the Wm. W. 
Backus Hospital, trustee of the Eliza Huntington Memorial Home, 
and a director of the Thames National Bank, Norwich Savings 
Society, Norwich Water Power Company and other corporations. 
In 1887 he joined the Park Congregational Church and took an 
active interest in its affairs until his death. He loved to travel, made 
three trips abroad^ — one of them in a yacht — hunted in the Canadian 
wilds and visited the West Indies. CHis health began to fail in 
1898, and in the autumn he submitted to an operation upon the 
stomach, from the effect of which he died October 24th. "Of a 
cheerful Christian faith, a manly walk and conversation, a courtesy 
never failing, of unjudging charity and boundless sympathy, he 
commended himself to the respect and admiration of his fellow 
citizens and to the devoted love of his intimates." 



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|ENRY DOWS STEBBINS, generally called "Steb," was 
born September lo, i860, at Cazenovia, New York. He 
fitted at St. John's School, Manlius, New York, and at 
Cazenovia Seminary. In college he was a Chi Psi and "E. Pi D." 
C After graduation he went south and was for some months tutor 
in the family of John M. Parker of New Orleans, Louisiana. The 
next year he traveled in the West and, returning to New England 
in October, entered Berkeley Divinity School, where he spent three 
years. In May, 1888, he was given charge of the parish of St. Paul's 
at Holland Patent, New York, and a year later was ordained at 
Syracuse. Immediately following his ordination he became rector 
of Emmanuel Church, Norwich, New York, — a position which he 
held until his death. CHe was married July 8, 1891, to May D. 
Martin of Norwich, New York, and had three children; Vernette 
Maydole, born February 23, 1893; John, September 7, 1894; Henry 
Martyn, December 12, 1897. ^^ December, 1898, he had an attack 
of typhoid from which he rallied slowly. The following spring he 
went to Old Point Comfort and on his return stopped for a visit 
with his brother at Cornwall-on-Hudson. Here he was attacked 
by pneumonia and died April 23, 1899. A brother pastor refers to 
him in these words : "Unselfish ministry was characteristic of his 
kindly heart, and none knew him well but to love him. . . . Clear 
and true in thought, pure and clean in life, he was one of God's 
noblemen." Mrs. Stebbins has since married and is at Norwich, 
New York (Mrs. C. L. Parker). 

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ff^ILLIAM CLAFLIN, or "Bill" Claflin, was born March 26. 
1862, at Marlboro, Massachusetts. He fitted in Chicago at 
the High School of which his father, James F. Claflin (Am- 
herst '59), was principal. In college he was an Alpha Delt, winner of 
the $100 Latin prize, a member of the football team, and a boxer, 
d After graduating he studied law in Chicago, in the offices of S. W. 
Packard and Bryan and Hatch. During the winter of 1884-5 he taught 
in the Chicago evening schools. This affected his health and he 
spent the next year in the Southwest selling mining machinery and 
working in smelting plants at Cerillos and Socorro, New Mexico. 
In the spring of 1886 he returned to Chicago and went into the real 
estate business with his uncle, Isaac Claflin. Two years later the 
firm became Wm. Claflin and Company. C October 14, 1886, he 
married Grace Thurston of Lombard, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago 
where he had lived for years and where he served several terms as 
alderman. He was also a Justice of the Peace. In January, 1902, 
Claflin caught a severe cold which rapidly developed into pneu- 
monia. He died January loth after an illness of only five days. His 
wife and two sons, Stephen Thurston, born July 23, 1893, ^^^ 
Edward Cahoon, born November 2, 1897, survive him. The memo- 
rial passed by the Amherst Club of Chicago said: **His life stood 
for strength, activity, manhood: a typical citizen of the city in 
which his business life was passed, best illustrated by its terse 
motto, 'I will.' Yet he was ever ready to extend a helping hand 
freely and generously to those about him." 



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Frank Howard Oliver 

Born December 28, 1860 

Died April 21, 1902 

Age 42 years 




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RANK HOWARD OLIVER was born at Charlestown, 
.^ Massachusetts, December 23, i860. When he was fifteen years 
of age his parents moved to East Somerville, Massachusetts, 
where he attended the grammar and high school and graduated 
from the latter in 1879, entering Amherst in the fall of the same 
year. CI During the spring of freshman year he was obliged to 
leave college on account of the illness of his mother. He never 
returned. In October of that year (1880) he took a position as 
shipping clerk with a Boston firm handling wholesale knit-goods. 
In 1884 he moved his home to Everett, Massachusetts, and in the 
spring of 1887 entered the service of the National Express Com- 
pany in Boston, as stenographer. He was married March g, 1887, 
to Anna Elizabeth Brown of Shelburne, Nova Scotia. He was a 
member of the Belmont Methodist Episcopal Church of Maiden 
and an earnest worker, both in the church and Sunday-school. In 
March, 1888, he took a stenographic position with the United States 
Express Company in Boston and remained with them a little more 
than a year, when he secured a position as head stenographer for 
C. H. Graves and Sons. This position he held until his death. He 
was also stenographic reporter for the "Everett Free Press." He 
died April 21, 1902, at Everett, Massachusetts. C Oliver had three 
children: Robert Nelson, born February 11, 1888; Florence May, 
born April 8, 1889, died August 10, 1889; Francis Batchelder, born 
January 6, 1896. His wife and the two boys now reside in Walpole, 
Massachusetts. 



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IHARLES EDWARD ROUNDS was born September 8, 
1859, at Maiden, Massachusetts, and fitted at the Maiden 
High School. He was an expert stenographer and during 
the latter part of his course at Amherst acted as private secretary 
to President Seelye. He was a Delta Upsilon, a Phi Beta Kappa 
and winner of one of the Latin prizes. CAfter graduation he 
entered the service of L. C. Chase and Company of Boston as ste- 
nographer. A year later he went to Fargo, South Dakota, as ste- 
nographer for the Northern Pacific Elevator Company. In Sep- 
tember of 1886 the company moved to Minneapolis. Rounds went 
with them and remained in their employ until August, 1894, when 
he took a similar position with the St. Anthony and Dakota 
Elevator Company. He remained with the latter firm until his 
death. CIn Minneapolis he married, May 9, 1888, Celia Laren 
Ellsworth and had three children: Louise Ellsworth, born Febru- 
ary 20, 1889; Charles Knapp, born May 20, 1890; and Julia Mar- 
garet, born April 4, 1893. The close application which Rounds's 
work entailed undermined his health and he died February 6, 1906. 
A letter from his wife contains a beautiful tribute to his character. 
She says: "He felt that his life had been a failure because he had 
not realized his ideals — and if one is to measure success from a 
financial standpoint, he was not successful, but in noble qualities of 
mind and heart and the things that really count for the most he 
was an inspiring example for many. He left his children a much 
richer heritage than money." 



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RANK HERBERT FITTS was born April 30, 1861, at 
Medway, Massachusetts, and fitted at the Walpole and 
HolHston high schools. In college he was a member of 
Torch and Crown, and a Phi Beta Kappa. CIn the autumn of 1883 
he obtained a position with the Bradley Fertilizer Company of 
Boston, remaining with them three years, the first two in the office 
and the third as superintendent of their sulphuric acid works. The 
following year, he was connected with the Bowker Fertilizer Com- 
pany. In 1888 he went into the grain business in Boston. He was 
married in June, 1888, to Mary Gleason Collins of Brighton, and 
had one child, Adela Frances, born November 26, 1895. Mrs. Fitts 
died in May 1901. In August, 1907, he married Ida Goodspeed of 
Wareham. About four months after his second marriage he was 
attacked by typhoid and died of heart failure at his home in 
Brighton on New Year's day, 1908, after an illness of a few weeks. 
C Fitts was a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and 
was senior deacon and superintendent of the Sunday school of the 
Brighton Congregational Church. Among the many tributes to his 
character the following from his associates of the Chamber of 
Commerce is typical: "He was a hard worker and devoted to his 
business, taking very little time for the pleasures of life. He was 
rarely seen elsewhere, after dropping his business cares for the day, 
than at his home or his church. He was a modest m.an, but what- 
ever he undertook he usually accomplished." 



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^AVID BRAINERD ROWLAND was born at Conway, 
Massachusetts, May 8, 1861, of missionary parents then 
visiting in this country. He was taken to India when a year 
old and lived there twelve years ; then returned and entered Willis- 
ton Seminary. In college he was a Delta U. CUpon graduating 
he chose journalism as his profession, began work on the "North- 
ampton Herald" ('83-'85), then became night editor of the "Rutland 
Herald" ('85-'87), and was for eight years night and city editor of 
the "Springfield Republican" ('87-'95). In '95 he bought an interest 
in the "Worcester Gazette" and threw his whole energy into its 
development. This effort cost him his life. He suffered a paralytic 
stroke from the effects of which he never fully recovered. After 
two years' rest in the South he became editor of the "Woman's 
Home Companion;" two years later he went to the "Providence 
Journal;" during the presidential campaign of 1904 was on the 
Republican Press Bureau; and then went to the "Pittsburg 
Gazette," where in 1906 he suffered a complete nervous collapse. 
The remaining two years of his life were spent in a hospital in 
Worcester. He died May 27th, 1908. COn November 14, 1901, he 
was married to Emily Bliss Starkweather at Northampton and had 
one child, David Merrick, born July 9, 1903. Callahan, speaking of 
Howland at the last reunion, said, "His principal attribute was his 
hopefulness." The "Boston Transcript" spoke of him as one of the 
best-known newspaper men in New England, and other prominent 
papers emphasized his high character and political sagacity. 

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Ting Liang Ho 

Died in 

Canton, China 

1908 



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^g f ^l JlNG LIANG HO, a scion of the Chinese nobihty, was one 
HR^^ of the Oriental youths sent to this country to be educated 
tSsea^l at the time when American ideas first began to have weight 
in China. Ho talked little about his people or his home. It is 
known that his aim was not only to gain in this country a liberal 
education, but also a practical knowledge of medicine. He was, 
however, disappointed, for in 1881, at the completion of his sopho- 
more year at Amherst, political changes occurred in China which 
resulted in the recall by Imperial edict of all Chinese students in 
the United States. C Chinese Commissioner Tong Shao Yi, who 
was also one of this group, has told us something of Ho's life after 
his return to China. He is reported to have taken part in the 
war with France in 1884-5, at the close of which he settled in 
Canton. There he married and had three children. His health, 
which was never robust, soon began to fail. Two of his children 
died. This bereavement affected him profoundly. He became 
melancholy, lost ambition, and symptoms of a mental disorder 
appeared which unfitted him for responsible duties. For some time 
he filled a clerical position in the government telegraph and cus- 
toms service at Canton but finally was forced to abandon that. A 
letter of inquiry to Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, former ambassador 
to the United States, who was a friend of Ho's and a member of 
the same group in student days, brings to us, just as this book is 
going to press, the sad intelligence of Ho's death, which occurred 
some time last year (1908). 



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ARKIS LEVONIAN was born November 9, 1851, at 
Aintab, Turkey. He went from Amherst to Yale in '81 and 
graduated at Sheffield in '83. From that time until his death 
he was professor of mathematics and geology in Central Turkey 
College. He published (1897) ^ Text Book in Arithmetic and 
Trigonometry and a Life of Christ. He taught a Sunday-school 
class of 150 adults and served on seven boards, — religious, educa- 
tional, and civil. August 20, 1884, he was married to Johanna 
Wilhelmina Rosalia Marissadjian of Amasia in Pontus. He had 
five children, — all living, and three grandchildren. The elder of 
his boys is a junior at Central Turkey College and leads his class. 
In February (1909) Levonian wrote that the new regime in Turkey 
had placed upon him certain civil duties, and said "Constitutional 
government opens for us a new field of work among Moham- 
medans. We hope now to have many Mohammedans in our college. 
It is very pleasant to work among and for them." 

He died a martyr's death at Adana, April 15, 1909. The dispatch 
says: "Professor Sarkis Levonian was with the nineteen preachers 
and pastors who were gathering for the annual conference of the 
churches of the Cilicia Union. They all took refuge, when the 
massacre commenced Thursday morning in Osmaniyeh, in the 
basement of the Protestant church. The Turkish mob set fire to 
the building and drove the women and children to the government 
house. As the pastors and church delegates found themselves 
underneath a burning building they came forth to escape and were 
instantly shot down." 

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CLASS STATISTICS 

Living 

Graduates 85 

Non-Graduates 27 



Dead 


Total 


9 


94 


7 


34 



Total 112 16 128 

All the living members of the class have married except those 

named below. The married men number 95 = 85% 

The bachelors are: Callahan, Haven, Hooker, Knight, Lewis, 
Noyes, Rae, Saben, Smith, I. F., Smith, O., Stickney, Trow- 
bridge, Tuttle, G. A., Ward, Walker, J. B., Smith, L., Wil- 
liams 17 -15% 

112 = 100% 
OCCUPATIONS 

BUSINESS 
Cahoon Chesley, Comins, Comstock, Cotton, Field, Foster, Fow- 
ler, Guernsey, Hamilton, Holt, Hyde, Kendall, McFarland, 
Marsh, Morse, Owen, Saben, Warren, Ward, Atwater, Foster, 
G. W., French, C. E., Jones, E. B., Kirby, W. D., Kitchin, 
Mitchell Norton, Orr, E. S., Palmer, Smith, L Z2 — 28% 

TEACHING 
Backus, Bardwell, D. L., Boyden, Callahan, Fairbank, Hallett, S. 
W., Manning, Nash, W. K., Orr, W., Parsons, Rhees, Rugg, 
G., Simonds, Smith, I. F., Tuttle, C. A., Walker, Whitcomb, 
Bardwell, C. M., Cochran, Jewett 20 = 18% 

LAW 
Aborn, Adams, Cushman, Holcombe, Kingman, Knight, Lewis, 
Nash, H. C, Rainey, Rugg, A. P., Semple, Smith, O., Sprout, 
Whitaker, Jerome, Leonard, Smith, C. D., Williams 18 = 16% 

MINISTRY 
Butler, Byington, Clapp, Dyer, Greenleaf, Hatch, Newell, Patton, 

Pennock, Washburn, Whittlesey, Goodwin, Wheelwright. .. .13 = 11% 

MEDICINE 
Bancroft, Derebey, Hallet, W. L., Hamlin, Haven, Houghton, 
Nichols, Rae, Tuttle, G. A., Walker, J. B., Herrick, Hopkins, 
Kirby, N. H 13 = 11% 

JOURNALISM 
Bridgman, Low, Noyes, Trowbridge, Krikorian. ... 5 = 5% 

FARMING 
Ayer, Peet, Perry 3 = 3% 

MINING 
French, E. W., Stuart 2— 2% 

UNCLASSIFIED 
Griffin (Chemist), Hooker(Civic Secretary), Lew (Veterinary), Pratt 

(Civil Engineer), Smith, H. A. H., (Artist), Stickney 6 = 6% 

AUTHORSHIP 

None of the class has devoted himself exclusively to authorship but 
13 have published books; Boyden, Bridgman, Byington, Clapp, Field, Noyes, 
Parsons, Rhees, C. A. Tuttle, W. Walker, Kitchin, Krikorian, Levonian. 

This is exclusive of pamphlets and professional monographs. 

Of the sixteen men who have died, nine were in business (Claflin, Elli- 
son, Fitts, Johnson, Mason, Rounds, Allen, Hendrickson and Oliver) ; one in 
the ministry (Stebbins) one in journalism (Howland) one in public service 
(Ho) ; one a teacher (Levonian) and three had not entered upon their 
work (Jones, H. M., Silliman and Reed). 

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GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 

The following table illustrates the trend toward the large cities 

and toward the Vs^est: _. ^ , Residence 

Place of when in Present 

Birth College Residence 

Arizona 1 

California 1 

Colorado (including Denver) 3 

Connecticut (including New Haven) 9 10 4 

District of Columbia (Washington) 1 2 2 

Florida 1 2 

Illinois (except Chicago) 2 1 2 

Chicago 3 3 6 

Indiana 1 1 1 

Iowa 1 1 

Kansas 2 

Kentucky 1 1 

Maine ] 4 1 1 

Massachusetts (except Boston and suburbs and 

Worcester) 43 55 20 

Boston and Worcester 7 12 18 

Michigan 1 

Minnesota (including Minneapolis and St. Paul) 12 2 

Missouri (St. Louis and Kansas City) 2 

Nevada 1 

New Hampshire 2 1 2 

New Jersey 2 2 1 

New Mexico 1 

New York (except Greater New York and su- 
burbs, Buffalo and Rochester) 11 8 1 

Greater New York, Buffalo and Rochester 8 10 23 

Ohio (including the large cities) 2 1 1 

Oregon 3 

Pennsylvania (except Philadelphia and Pitts- 
burgh) 1 

Philadelphia and Pittsburgh 2 1 2 

Rhode Island (including Providence) 1 1 1 

Texas 1 

Vermont 9 4 1 

Washington 2 

Wisconsin (including Milwaukee) 2 2 1 

Canada 1 

Philippine Islands 1 

Cuba 1 

Japan 1 

India 1 1 1 

Turkey 3 4 1 

Ceylon 1 

Bulgaria 1 

Unknown 5 

In cities of more than 100,000 population 23 30 62 

In New England 75 84 47 

In the Atlantic and Southern States (including 

Pennsylvania) 25 24 34 

In the Middle West east of the Mississippi.... 11 10 11 

West of the Mississippi 4 3 16 

In Foreign Countries (including the Philippines) 6 6 5 

SONS OF EIGHTY-THREE NOW AT AMHERST 

Samuel Ballantine Fairbank '09, Alan Melvin Fairbank '11, Edward Henry 
Marsh '11, Charles Belcher Rugg '11. Alan Gardner Orr '12, Jonathan 
Parsons Greenleaf '12, William Cutler Atwater, Jr. '12. 

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THE SECOND GENERATION 



Adams, Emily M., b. July 5, 1901 

Chas. S., Jr., b. Dec. 5, 1906 
Backus, :{: C. J. Jr., b. Sept. 22, 1887 

David H., b. Mar. 7, 1893 

Romayne, b. Mar. 5, 1895 

Una, b. Jan. 22, 1897 
Bancroft, Margaret, b. July 20, 1891 

Richard, b. Dec. 26, 1892 

Philip, b. Oct. 12, 1897 
Bardwell, Harold E., b. Dec. 12, 1885 

Darwin E., b. June 8, 1896 
Boyden, t Robt. W., b. Mar. 7, 1889 

Alice G., b. July 18, 1892 

Bartlett W., b. Oct. 2, 1899 
Bridgman, Harriet, b. Aug. 26, 1899 

Edwin B., b. Nov. 21, 1901 

Marion, b. Feb. 15, 1907 
Bvington, *Theo. L., b. July 27, 1892 

Ruth, b. May 4, 1897 

Paul, b. Nov., 1898 
Butler, Margaret E., b. Mar. 24,1907 
Cahoon, Katherine, b. Jan. 23, 1895 

Louise, b. Sept. 7, 1897 

Mabel, b. Aug. 10, 1902 
Chesley, S. Russell, b. Mar. 29, 1885 

*Israel F. Jr., b. Dec. 28, 1886 

Franklin R., b. Dec. 1, 1889 

Malcolm, b. May 20, 1891 
Claflin, Stephen T., b. July 23, 1893 

Edward C, b. Nov. 2, 1897 
Comins, Edward I., b. Mar. 12, 1889 

*Leonard C, b. July 18, 1895 
Cotton, Edith F., b. Oct. 12, 1890 

Rachel E., b. Apr. 23, 1894 
Cushman, *Dorothy, b. Jan. 18, 1890 

Caroline, b. Jan. 17, 1893 
Derebey, Harold P., b. July 5, 1889 

Frank P., b. Feb. 19, i892 

Chester H., b. Oct. 19, 1897 
Dyer, i:Ruth E., b. Mar. 10, 1889 
Fairbank. tSaml. B., b. Dec. 7, 1887 

tAlan M., b. Sept. 27, 1889* 

Ruth E., b. Feb. 29, 1892 
Field, Walter Donald, b. Aug. 8, 1895 

Ruth Alden, b. July 14, 1898 

John Stanley, b. July 23, 1904 
Foster, *daughter, b. 1902 
Fitts, Adela Frances, b. Nov. 26, 1895 
Fowler, Margaret, b. July 28, 1888 

Helen, b. July 20, 1890 

Katherine, b. Oct. 8, 1897 

Edwin Brodie, b. Dec. 18, 1899 

Elizabeth B., b. Nov. 18, 1901 
French, Olive Louise, May 31, 1888 

George M., b. Nov. 22, 1889 

Reid A., b. 

Greenleaf, tj. Parsons, May 2, 1888 

Anna Elizabeth, b. Sept. 5, 1894 

Chas. Scott, b. Nov. 5, 1897 
Griffin, Archer E., b. Dec. 4, 1899 

Carol R., b. May 30, 1902 



Hamilton, Raymond N., Sept. 1, '89 
Kenneth C, b. Apr. 17, 1892 

Hatch, *Helen W., b. Dec. 11, 1895 
David P. Jr., b. Feb. 21, 1899 

Holcombe, Louise B, Sept. 9, 1896 
Harriet D., b. Nov. 19, 1899 
Alice P., b. June 10, 1901 

Houghton, Florence P., June 28, '89 
Helene S., b. June 8, 1891 
Henry S., b. Jan. 3, 1896 

Howland, David M., b. July 9, 1903 

Hyde, Elizabeth L., b. May 17, 1886 
Phyllis E., b. Aug. 21, 1898 

Kendall, Rachel H., b. Jan. 15, 1892 

Kingman,*Elizabeth R., Sept. 24, '92 
Henry S., b. Dec. 25, 1893 
Joseph R. Jr., b. June 18, 1900 
Eleanor, b. July 31, 1905 

Manning, tMervyn M., June 21, '88 

Marsh, fEdward H., b. Nov. 3, 1889 
Marion P., b. Dec. 20, 1894 
Morrison, b. Sept. 6, 1901 

McFarland, Malcolm, b. May 5, '90 

Morse, Josephine O., b. Sept. 4, 1890 
Carl G., b. Nov. 19, 1892 
Bradbury B., b. Aug. 9, 1898 

Nash, Henry C, 3rd, b. Apr. 7, 1889 
^Raymond O., b. Apr. 7, 1890 
Willard O., b. Aug. 4, 1892 
Clifford R., b. Aug. 23, 1897 

Nash,(W.K.)GeraldineL.,Dec.20,'99 

Newell, Florence C, b. Nov. 7, 1890 
Justus W., b. Oct. 31, 1893 
Harriet, b. Dec. 4, 1894 
Horatio W., b. Feb. 5, 1898 

Orr, (W.) tAlan G., b. July 15, '90 
Helen Theresa, b. June 8, 1895 
*Philip Gardner, b. Mar. 12, 1897 
^Charlotte Reid, b. Sept. 4, 1900 

Owen, Paul, b. Oct. 27, 1891 
Knight, b. May 9, 1893 

Parsons, Esther, b. Oct. 29, 1890 
Chas. E., b. Feb. 29, 1892 
Elizabeth I., b. Sept. 8, 1894 
^Josephine, b. May 23, 1897 
Edward S. Jr., b. July 13, 1898 
Talcott, b. Dec. 13, 1902 

Patton, Augusta, b. July 17, 1893 
Catherine, b. Feb. 3, 1898 

Peet, Robert Barfe, b. Nov. 5, 1900 
Richard W., b. Jan. 30, 1904 
Elizabeth D., b. May 9, 1907 

Pennock, tGrace L., b. Dec. 25, '90 
Helen L., b. June 14, 1897 

Pratt, Stuart W., b. Jan. 13, 1899 

Rhees, Morgan J., b. June 15, 1900 
Henrietta S., b. Feb. 1, 1904 
Rush Jr., b. Mar. 19, 1905 

Rounds, Louise E., b. Feb. 20, 1889 
Chas. Knapp, b. May 20, 1890 
Julia Margaret, b. Apr. 4, 1893 



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Rugg, (A.P.) tChas. B., Jan. 20, '90 
Arthur P., Jr., b. Aug. 22, 1893 
Esther C, b. Sept. 5, 1896 
*Donald Sterling, b. Aug. 18, '98 

Rugg, (G) Gertrude R., Sept. 18, '88 
Chas. P., b. July 13, 1891 

Simonds, §Albert G., May 16, 1885 
:i:Wm. Adams, b. Sept. 19, 1887 
Alice Frances, b. Dec. 4, 1889 
Sarah E., b. Nov. 24, 1892 
Esther, b. Mar. 23, 1895 
John M., b. July 8, 1898 
*Ruth, b. Jan. 22, 1901. 

Sprout, *EtheIwyn C, b. Jan. 30, '89 
Wm. B. Jr., b. Apr. 4, 1900 
Margaret L., b. Jan. 30, 1904 

Stebbins, Vernette M., Feb. 23, 1893 
John, b. Sept. 7, 1894 
Henry M., b. Dec. 12, 1897 

Stuart, *infant, b. Jan. 1, 1893 
Kimberley, b. May 19, 1895 



Atwater, tW. C. Jr., b. July 18, '90 
John Jacob, b. May 22, 1893 
Margaret Hay, b. Sept. 11, 1894 
David Hay, b. Nov. 9, 1898 

Bardwell, (CM.) :i:Robt.C.,Jan.l,'88 
:j:Richard W., b. May 14, 1889 
Anna Laura, b. Oct. 4, 1893 
Conrad M. Jr., b. Nov. 1, 1896 

Blanke, Donald C, b. Oct. 11, 1898 
Waldron E., b. Oct. 11, 1903 

Cochran, Thos. Childs, b. Apr. 29, '02 

Foster (G. W.) Russell, b. 

Thomas J., b. 

Goodwin, Mary D., b. Mar. 11, 1899 
Faith H., b. Jan. 18, 1904 

Ho, *child, b. 

*child,.b. 

child, b. 

Jerome, Wm. T. Jr., b. July 15, 1890 

Jewett, Edith M., b. May 20, 1883 
*Edward, b. May 20, 1883 
Helen Fay, b. Nov. 5, 1888 

Jones, +Gurdon B., b. May 20, 1888 
Mlister Ross, b. Jan. 9, 1890 
:i:Alden BHss, b. Sept. 3, 1891 
*Pauline Fales, b. June 7, 1893 
Miriam, b. Apr. 29, 1895 
Isabel Fales, b. Apr. 29, 1904 

Kirby, (W.D.) Barbara, Apr. 30, '91 

Kitchin, Edith C, b. July 28, 1883 
Edmond F., b. July 29, 1884 
Howard W., b. Feb. 7, 1887 
Bernard L., b. June 27, 1891 



Tuttle, (CA) Miner W., Mar. 31,'93 
Elizabeth M. A., b. Dec. 11, 1898 

Walker, (W.) Amelia, b. Aug. 9, '94 
Elizabeth, b. Aug. 2, 1902 

Warren, Frank D. Jr., b. July 9, '97 
Mary, b. Sept. 6, 1899 

Washburn, Ruth E., Mar. 25, 1887 
i:Almy Dwight, b. Nov. 1, 1888 
Ralph S., b. Aug. 25, 1890 
Lawrence G., b. Feb. 23, 1893 
Walter B. C, b. Apr. 25, 1897 

Whitaker, Richard E., Aug. 25, '00 
*Anna B., b. Oct. 23, 1904 
Grace Isabel, b. Dec. 29, 1905 

Whitcomb, Rachel G., June 3, 1891 
John Leonard, b. Sept. 4, 1894 
*Chas. W., b. June 25, 1906 

Whittlesey, Ludella M., Apr. 24, '91 
Ralph E., b. June 6, 1895 
Roland D., b. Mar. 18, 1898 
Raymond C, b. Sept. 24, 1900 



Krikorian, Ephronia L., Aug. 23,'89 
Terouant M., b. Jan. 20, 1892 
Vahran R., b. Oct. 25, 1895 
*Byzant S., b. Mar. 19, 1898 
Albert, b Oct. 1, 1900 
son, b. 

Leonard, Perl R., b. Apr. 11, 1887 
tHartford, b. July 23, 1888 
Curtis W., b. Nov. 22, 1891 
^Charlotte A., b. Nov. 22, 1893 
Dorothy, b. Jan. 22, 1896 

Levonian, §Julia C, b. July 12, 1885 
Mari H., b. Aug. 20, 1888 
i:Bysant A., b. Dec. 13, 1890 

daughter, b. 

son, b. , 1899 

Mitchell, John H., b. Aug. 29, 1890 
Howard H., b. Mar. — , 1903 

Norton, §Richard A., b. Oct. 3, 1882 
Henry E. A., b. Sept. 28, 1884 
Jamjes A., b. July 27, 1886 
*Edward B., b. Aug. 8, 1887 

Oliver, Robert N., b. Feb. 11, 1888 
^Florence May, b. Apr. 8, 1889 
Francis B., b. Jan. 6, 1896 

Orr, (E.S.) Edwd. B., b. May 19, '94 
Katherine, b. Aug. 19, 1900 
Mary Belle, b. , 1902 

Perry, son, b. , 1907 

Reed, Harold W., b. , 1883 

Smith, (CD) Helen E., Mar. 31, '92 
Dorcas, b. Aug. 24, 1899 

Wheelwright, §Grace A., Apr. 3, '85 



*Died tin college at Amherst iln college elsewhere §Has children 

Children of graduates, 164; living 147. Children of non-graduates, 66; 
living, 58. Total, 230; living, 205. Average number to each family, 2.35. 

HONORABLE MENTION— (More than four children): Simonds, 7; 
Parsons, 6; Krikorian, 6; Fowler, 5; Washburn, 5; Leonard, 5; Levonian, 5. 



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SCRAPS FROM THE NEW^SPAPERS 

POL AMONG THE IGOROTS 

HE Rev. Walter C. Clapp was one of the pioneer mission- 
aries of the Church in the Philippines. He went out with 
the Rev. John A. Staunton, Jr., in October, igoi. After 
about a year's work in Manila, in the course of which he and Mr. 
Staunton built the temporary chapel known as St. Stephen's, he was 
transferred by Bishop Brent to the important work among the 
Igorots and the Ilocanos in the mountains of Central Luzon. 
C[When he arrived at Bontoc there was no chapel, no school, not 
even a written language. Everything had to be done from the very 

beginning. A simple, one-story, thatched- 
roof house was secured and converted into 
a mission house. In the front room an 
improvised altar was set up ; the back room 
did double duty as dining room and dis- 
pensary, for the aim of the mission from 
the very beginning has been "to stand for 
general helpfulness in the community." 
CThe next necessity was the study of the 
language. Writing about his method of 
learning Igorot, Mr. Clapp said: "Our 
teachers are the boys, whom, by giving 
some reward, we can corral for a time, while 
we subject them to a process of catechizing 
as regards the Igorot equivalent of English 
words. We try to record what w^e hear in 
our note books and so grope our way along 
through the blind intricacies of an unwritten tongue." Mr. Clapp 
has now completed the first (approximately) complete vocabulary of 
Bontoc Igorot, and has translated the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, the 
Ten Commandments, the Offices for Holy Baptism and Holy Matri- 
mony, St. Mark's Gospel, and some of the Psalms. ([One of Mr. 
Clapp's earliest friends at Bontoc was Pitt-a-Pit, a lad of ten or 
eleven, who became a regular visitor at the mission house. At last he 
asked to be baptized, so in the same service provided by the Church 
for her little ones at home, he became a member of the Kingdom and 
took the Christian name of Hilary. — "The Spirit of Missions." 

A TRIBUTE TO HOWLAND 

AVID B. HOWLAND, 47 years of age, formerly one of the 
proprietors of the "Northampton Daily Herald" and later in 
life one of the foremost newspaper men in the country, died 
at 7 o'clock this morning in the Worcester hospital. For two years 
he had been declining, at times slowly, at other times rapidly, until 
in the end there was merely a shadow of a wonderfully brilliant 
mind and a powerful body. . . . Acquiring in college a 
solid literary training which was to stand him in good stead 
the rest of his life, he brought to the journalistic work on 
which he entered the very year of his graduation from 
Amherst not alone scholarly attainments but also that indispensable 

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Clapp and Pitt-a-pit 




equipment for him who is to make newspaper work his life work — 
an alert mind, an engaging personality and that appreciation of 
what is news which is always born in the leaders of the profession 
and seldom acquired by those who do not manifest in their earlier 
journalistic years that it is part of their nature. . . . Mr. How- 
land came of a family devoted to missionary work and inspired by 
the highest ideals of the old New England life. His father and 
mother, aside from being missionaries in India, were allied with 
some of the strongest characters in New England. The mother, 
Susan Reed, was the adopted daughter of Mary Lyon, founder of 
Mt. Holyoke. — Northampton Herald, May 27, 1908. 

MAC. AS AN ORATOR 

^^^OREY F. McFARLAND has set critical, blase, scholarly 
KBp^ Galesburg talking. That seat of Knox College which has 
[■^^^ heard the best orators of the world seldom talks about the 
speeches it hears. Being the seat of Knox College, it is a place 
where the speaker is heavily handicapped. Mr. McFarland was 
there and made an address to five thousand people which faculty 
and the masses, town and gown, agree was a gem of rhetoric and 
oratory. They are talking about it yet. — "Keokuk Standard." 

Mr. McFarland, one of the most prominent business men in 
Iowa, known for hard sense and Scotch sagacity, has made himself 
one of the greatest forces for good in Iowa today. — "Des Moines 
Register and Leader." 

Mr. McFarland was among the invited guests and made the 
principal address of the evening, which was listened to with rapt 
attention from start to finish. Mr. McFarland is one of those 
happy, whole-souled fellows that you can't help falling in love with 
and the humorous, practical, stirring manner in which he talked 
just made people bubble over with enjoyment. Christian character 
and manhood were enlarged upon. — "Fort Madison Gem City." 

SANDY SILENCES A POPOCRAT 

OUND SENSE vs. ORATORY. Popocrat Willey in 
Debate is Worsted by Quiet Mr. Noyes: Two kinds of 
Democrats engaged in a joint debate in Leach's Hall, 
Montclair, last night, before an audience that packed the building. 
Honest money and honest Democracy was represented by Alexan- 
der D. Noyes, a newspaper man of this city, who is the national 
Democratic candidate for Congress in the Eighth district of New 
Jersey. CThe repudiation and Popocratic brand of Democracy had 
its defender in the Hon. Freeman O. Willey, the Popocratic oppo- 
nent of Mr. Noyes for the seat in Congress. Naturally the question 
in debate was that of the free coinage of silver. The big audience 
gave each side a fair hearing, but it was evident that its syrApathies 
were for sound money. CThe debate furnished a typical instance 
of the method in which the discussions of the all-important question 
are being carried on. Mr. Willey, who led off, is an ex-judge, an 
orator, and a politician of the Western type. He comes from Min- 
nesota and is the author of a book on finance. Mr. Noyes also is 

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the author of a book on finance. He is not, however, a politician 
or an orator, but is a man of affairs and a close reasoner. Where 
Willey's aim was to stir up his audience, Noyes's was to calm them 
down. The ex-Westerner is stout and florid, with beautiful, wavy 
gray hair and a suave and oily manner. The Easterner is thin, 
scholarly looking and quick and rather nervous in manner. In 
every respect the two men are opposites. CThe Popocrat pro- 
ceeded to deliver an oration in prize-winning style. He pranced 
up and down the stage. He prodded the atmosphere full of holes 
with an illustrative forefinger and ripped wide chasms in it with 
a swinging arm. He asked himself questions and answered them 
with pleasing and graceful gestures. . . . CThen Mr. Noyes 
got up to answer. Mr. Noyes stood still, and held some sheets of 
paper in his hand on which were written the notes he had taken 
of his opponent's discourse. He didn't prance up and down the 
stage. He didn't ask himself or anybody else any questions. He 
didn't orate. He didn't poke holes in the air, but he did poke 
holes, chasms, and abysses in the arguments of the Hon. Mr. 
Willey. The audience enjoyed it as much as they had Mr. 
Willey's pleasing piece, perhaps even a little more. 

PARD CAPTURES A WESTERN EDITOR 



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HE Opera House was comfortably filled Sunday night to 
listen to Rev. Parsons, of Greeley, discourse on Christianity. 
The services opened with a prayer by Rev. Sanders, of 
Colorado Springs, the Great Mogul of this jurisdiction. If 
the prayer was as efficacious as it was long it has not yet 
quit doing good. There is no telling how long it would 
have continued had not some devout worshipper slipped in 
an Amen while the Reverend was taking breath. Mr. Par- 
sons was then introduced and made one of the neatest talks 
it has been our pleasure to listen to since Preacher 
Paddock left the West in '82 or '83. Preachers like Parsons and 
Paddock always have a warm place in our heart, because we like 
men who progress with the times and lose sight of orthodoxy in 
humanity. The gentleman was earnest and sincere in everything, 
and, by the way, there is the beauty of talking without reading off 
a paper — the orator's feelings shone in his eyes. We believe Mr. 
Parsons /will cut a wide swath in this sphere in the not veryi 
distant future. — Red Cliff (Colo.) Times, April 26, 1890. 

PETE WANTED FOR VICE-PRESIDENT 

I^I^^HE Illinois State Register speaking of candidates for the 
|l|R^W vice-presidency (1908) says: Rainey, too, has been a life- 
t^gg^] long Democrat, a representative in Congress for three 
terms. During the last session of the 59th and the first session of 
the 6oth Congress he was particularly active in forcing discussion 
of the tariff and of trusts upon a hostile and unwilling house. His 
speeches not only sound well, but read well and his devotion to duty 
was manifested by almost continual attendance upon the sessions. 

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There never during the past thirty years has been a Democratic 
representative in Congress from Illinois who received even a frac- 
tion of the praise that has been bestowed upon Henry T. Rainey. 
And it comes from political opponents as well as from Democrats. 
Rainey is brainy and he has made a splendid record as a servant of 
the people — a servant who works. — Jacksonville (111.) Courier. 




Babe's New Hampshire Farm 



Patt's Suburban Retreat, Newton 

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Tom Comstock's Home, Greenfield 



Houghton's City House 




Mac's Villa on the Mississippi, Keokuk Joe Kingman's "Rus in Urbe," Minneapolis 

A FEW TYPICAL HOMES OF EIGHTY-THREE 

ON THE ELEVATION OF ARTHUR RUGG 

HE appointment of Mr. Rugg is unusual, as it is the first 
appointment direct from the bar to the Supreme Bench for 
a number of years. His appointment will meet w^ith favor 
among not only the W^orcesler county bar, but also among the 
members of the bar throughout the State. There will not be a 




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dissenting opinion to the statement that Mr. Rugg is in all respects 
one of the best qualified men in the state for a position on the 
bench. In Worcester and Boston he is considered one of the 
brightest men in the legal profession. His service as city solicitor 
for Worcester, as counsel for the New York, New Haven and 
Hartford Railroad and many other corporations, besides his work 
on a number of very important state commissions, marks him as a 
man of very extraordinary ability. In Worcester especially he is 
known as one of the ablest and most forceful arguers before the 
courts, and as an attorney who knows his law there is none who 
surpasses him in the state. — Worcester Evening Gazette, September 
14, 1906. 

RUSH RHEES AS PRESIDENT AND BRIDEGROOM 



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HERE were two interesting and important events in the 
life of Prof. Rush Rhees of Newton Theological Seminary 
yesterday, for in the afternoon he was elected president of 
the University of Rochester and in the evening he wedded Miss 
Harriet, daughter of President Seelye of Smith College. A special 
dispatch from Rochester, N. Y., to "The Republican," dated last 
evening, says : "Prof. Rush Rhees was today elected president of 
the University of Rochester by a unanimous vote of the board of 
trustees. The presidency of the university has been vacant since 
the resignation of Dr. David Jayne Hill, now assistant secretary of 
state. Over thirty names of prominent educators have been con- 
sidered for the place by a special committee and Prof. Rhees's 
election is considered as a remarkably happy choice. — Springfield 
Republican, July 7, 1899. 

SPROUT LIKE A BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE 

nEPRESENTATIVE SPROUT of Worcester is one of the 
best debaters in the House of Representatives, and his logic 
is as keen and his wit as sparkling as a bottle of champagne. 
He has served two terms in the lower branch of the Legislature, 
and is unquestionably one of the leaders in that body.' — Boston 
Post, April 12, 1890. 

SEMPLE AND THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 




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LIVER CHEEVER SEMPLE has been appointed assist- 
ant counsel for the Public Service Commission for this 
district, and his appointment will in all probability be 
officially announced today. . . . Mr. Semple is a Republican 
and has played an important part in politics for some years. He 
has always stanchly supported the Republican ticket and has been 
allied with the Citizens' Union in its reform efforts. He was 
appointed assistant corporation counsel when George L. Rives was 
corporation counsel, although the latter was a Democrat. Mr. 
Semple in 1897 was the leader in the Low campaign for his 
assembly district and two years later he was the candidate of his 
party and the Citizens' Union for Justice of the Municipal Court. — 
New York Tribune, July 27, 1907. 

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I. F. SMITH'S LECTURES 

'SAAC F. SMITH gave the third lecture in the free series at 
the High School on Tuesday evening on "Literary and 
Historic Shrines of Boston and Vicinity." An audience of 
between 500 and 600 listened to a highly impressive recital of his- 
torical and other facts, and were delighted with the stereopticon 
illustrations, all of which were of genuine interest. . . . Mr. 
Smith is a middle-aged gentleman, has a strong, distinct voice, and 
is remarkably self-possessed. He had his subject well in hand, 
expressed himself tersely, and uses remarkably good English. — 
Flushing (R. I.) Journal. 



WASHBURN'S FIVE YEARS AT FALMOUTH 

nEV. MR. WASHBURN, since he came here, has not only 
^ become known as an energetic and capable worker for his 
church, but has also been a leader in public affairs. He 
planned and carried through successfully the "merchants' week" 
three years ago, and has been foremost in all works of reform. He 
has the honor of being the only minister to be regularly installed 
at the church in twenty-five years, and held the longest pastorate 
in the existence of the church, being in charge five years. He will 
be tendered a public testimonial before his departure. — From a 
Falmouth despatch to one of the Boston papers, March 14, 1902. 



CHARLIE WHITTLESEY'S OREGON CHURCH 

f^l^^HE First Presbyterian church of Yakina Bay is at Newport, 
mjR^^ Oregon. The pastor is Rev. C. T. Whittlesey, who came 
tSseaJil three years ago from Albany College, where he had been 
teaching Greek and Latin, having previously taught those branches 
in Dallas College. The membership is small. Three years ago it 
was twenty, now it is only fifty-five. But it is doubtful if there is a 
church of its size in the state more important than this. The inter- 
denominational character of its membership is indicated by the 
fact that the session includes one man who was trained as a 
Methodist, one as a Baptist, one as a Presbyterian, and one as a 
United Presbyterian. The variety of its pulpit ministrations may 
be inferred from the fact that during the year sermons have been 
preached by eight Presbyterians besides the pastor; by three 
Methodists, and by one each of the following denominations : 
Baptist, Christian, Congregational, United Evangelical and United 
Brethren, the last a bishop, — and the working force of the church 
includes efficient helpers from the Friends' church and from the 
Evangelical Association. A good proportion of the Episcopal 
church attend the services when they have none of their own. — 
From the Pacific Presbyterian, Berkeley, California, May 28, 1908. 



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HOWI^AND'S SPEECH TO THE ^VORCESTER 
BOARD OF TRADE 

(The following extract from a speech delivered by Rowland at the an- 
nual banquet of the Worcester Board of Trade, April 13, 1897, expresses 
so clearly the ideals for which he strove that it is reprinted here as a 
memorial to his life and work.) 

NEWSPAPER should have ideals, if it cannot be wholly 
ideal. The best types of journals have had character and 
individuality. Their successful managers have standards 
by which the mass of matter thrust upon them is sifted and digested 
and each given its proper proportion. The great editors have real- 
ized the value of background, experience and knowledge of history 
that enable them to illuminate the dry details; to draw parallels; 
to suggest similarity and contrast ; to trace cause and effect. Their 
ideals of journalism have demanded that they print something more 
than a daily diary of events. You all know what this element of 
character means. You read it even between the lines of certain 
newspapers. They have an atmosphere that determines the char- 
acter as infallibly as in the man, and you can become attached to it. 

In selecting our companions, we ask if they are true and honor- 
able, and also ask whether they are interesting ; whether they stimu- 
late or broaden our horizon; and so, in deciding upon the news- 
paper companion for the home, why should not the same test be 
applied that we use in selecting books, our social affiliations, and 
all that affects the social atmosphere in which we move. 

In comparing the newspaper to the individual, we must make 
allowance for two functions peculiar to the journal. Newspapers 
must be interesting if they would secure the influence that a wide 
circulation can bring. You demand that your newspaper shall tell 
you something you did not know. It thus becomes, in a measure, 
a conveyer of gossip, and in satisfying our desire to know, often 
becomes unpleasantly obtrusive. There is most always some one 
anxious to delay the publication of every piece of news, or to with- 
hold it altogether. Hence the really interesting newspaper must 
offend some one frequently, in fulfilling its contract to give the 
public the news promptly. One of the most delicate and difficult 
problems for the conscientious editor is to decide just when certain 
things ought to be printed. Such publication of news necessarily 
takes liberties with people, and the judgment exercised between the 
demands of the public and the rights of the individual often 
determines whether a newspaper has ideals or not. 

The second function that a newspaper cannot escape is that of 
an advertising medium, for no daily newspaper could afford to 
expend the money needed even for news gathering, without serving 
the business community also, by conveying trade announcements 
into the homes. This is not incidental, as many would like to con- 
sider it; it is of primary importance, and as essential to the suc- 
cessful business man as it is to the newspaper itself. 

But it is in these two essential functions that many newspapers 
which have not been under proper restraint have become degenerate 

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or depraved. In the desire to interest people, they are not content 
to surprise, but wish to shock them, or play upon the morbid and 
vulgar tastes. Once this was done by details of murders and 
extended accounts of hangings; but these became commonplace. 
Then the divorce court was invaded, and all the salacious details 
were exploited to pander to the sensual instincts. But people 
became hardened even to this; or rather, surfeited by it, and there 
remained only the realm of morbid anatomy — the human freaks, 
monstrosities, stories of unusual criminals or barbarous races. The 
New York Sunday papers of a few years ago told these horrors, 
of people buried alive, suffering terrible tortures, or harrowing 
experiences. Added to this came the final outbreak of the Metro- 
politan Press, in its reckless rivalry to make unrestrained invasion 
of public liberty. When inoffensive and home-loving people were 
dragged without reason into the public prints; when portraits of 
women were printed, with vulgar guesses at their prospective 
children, there came the first uprising of an outraged public. The 
worm had turned. 

A concerted movement has been inaugurated to make the chief 
offenders outcasts. It has already succeeded in coercing them into 
a semblance of penitence. The longest offender has protested that 
he did not deserve to be classed with the other outcast, and has 
daily appealed to former contributors for certificates of good char- 
acter. The younger outcast has opened its entire editorial page 
each Sunday to clergymen, some of whom have swallowed the bait, 
and write sermons for non-churchgoing readers. In collecting its 
sermons on Hell, however, it found one frank, self-respecting divine 
who, when asked his opinion of the location of Hell, replied, "Hell 
is the place where your Sunday paper ought to be printed and 
exclusively circulated." 

Neither of these papers can scorn or defy the judgment of the 
public. They know that to retain influence they must have at 
least the semblance of respectability, and this lenten season has 
been made notable in New York by the exaggerated penitence of 
two wealthy editors, who are making the metropolis dusty with 
heaping on of ashes, and are giving prominence to religious topics 
that threaten the interest of competing denominational journals. 

In speaking of the ideal newspaper, let me use the Yankee 
privilege of asking you what are your ideals for a newspaper? It 
is a fair question to ask of representative business men in every 
community, who have great power to determine the character of 
the newspapers. The revulsion against offensive journalism in 
New York will only succeed if the advertisers starve the offenders 
into submission. The commercial side should not be used to warp 
the honest judgment of a newspaper, but in a question of morals 
or personal liberty, it has a right to exert its power and to enlist 
concerted action. It is often cowardice that stands in the way. 
The possibilities of newspaper hostility or favor are appalling to 
most men, when they think of the opportunities it has of nagging 
them maliciously in a blackmailing plot to coerce them into 
submission. 

But the success of the blackmailer depends upon the com- 

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placence of the victim. What does the honest and courageous man 
do when visited by the insinuating messenger, with the sinister 
suggestion that he had better do this or that to escape unpleasant- 
ness? His reply is, "I defy you to do your worst!" and he usually 
adds, "Now, get out of my house." The advertiser is the business 
partner of the newspaper publisher, and he can, in a large measure, 
influence the character of the journals that represent the city. We 
talk about quasi-public corporations, the combinations that are 
granted public privileges, and in return we claim the right to exer- 
cise a certain supervision and restraint over them. The freedom 
of the press is one of the greatest privileges ; it is guaranteed by the 
Constitution; but the public has in return the right to insist that 
liberty shall not grow into license, and they have the power to 
enforce that right. 

I have spoken of papers that are far from ideal. Returning a 
moment to the other side, let me suggest that the influence of the 
newspaper with ideals is subtle. I do not mean weak, hesitating or 
time-serving; but the ponderous editorial mandate, "Thou shalt 
not," too frequently arouses the response, "I will." There must 
be a tone of reasonableness, a spirit of fairness, before the confi- 
dence of men can be secured. One of the ablest jury pleaders in 
the State is your City Solicitor. You know how he approaches 
men — the poise of unruffled dignity, the willingness to appeal to 
reason, to concede what is not essential, and to be fair. He usually 
wins his cases. Fierce, unreasoning, and, worst of all, untruthful 
attacks react with sympathy for the persecuted. The newspaper 
should have virility, but that does not require Billingsgate. An 
expressive word is much more effective in the right place than 
expletives on all occasions. 

The newspapers have been passing through the period of sensa- 
tionalism; but some editors have kept the faith, and refused to be 
swerved from their ideals. If there is to be a millennium, it should 
offer a place for the faithful and incorruptible ones, in this as well 
as other professions. Then the editor may reach the ideal state 
described in Kipling's words, which may be paraphrased to describe 
the condition: 

"When no one shall write for money, 

And no one shall write for fame, 
But each for the joy of writing, 

Each in his particular chair, 
Shall write the thing as he sees it. 

For the God of the Things as they are," 



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